> which is not something most people want for obvious reasons Is this true? On sufficiently long time scales, do you really think that most people continue to

> which is not something most people want for obvious reasons Is this true? On sufficiently long time scales, do you really think that most people continue to imagine / desire law enforcement and public safety being mashed into the same entity(ies), and for those entities to be state agencies? My sense is that most people recognize that this is a temporary phenomenon. For advocates of slavery (including the current plantation-masquerading-as-corrections regime), police are of course necessary, because slavery is only economically feasible in the presence of this subsidy (which is how the current framework of police began in the USA in the first place). But if we imagine something only slightly more utopian, like restorative and rehabilitative justice that isn't designed as a profit generator, empowered by a sufficiently democratic and highly sensitive internet, then it becomes easy to imagine relieving the police of their duties and moving to more mature and stable systems of public safety.