> It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborho

> It would be better to stop public funding of police all together and replace it with either private security contractors hired on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, or citizen's patrols like the Guardian Angels, Black Panthers, or a version of Neighborhood Watch. This is a bad take, in my opinion. For the most part, all types of crime have been steadily declining since the 1990's [0][1][2]. You can't say policing is ineffective as a whole. There are certainly things to be improved upon, though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in_the_United_States.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Property_Crime_Rates_in_t... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_crime_rates_by_gender_1973-2003.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Violent_crime_rates_by_ge... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burglaries_per_1,000_pop.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burglaries_per_1,000_pop....