Would you actually live in a city or town that defunded or abolished the police.

[dawg day]

21. It doesn't have to be either/or.

Does it? We can consider things like moving traffic and "wellness checks" and mental health emergencies away from the police to those better able to deal with them without violence.

We can require better recruitment and training. We can restrict the use of weapons and military equipment (remember the TANKS in Kenosha? Huh?).

I'm not sure if anything will work, however, as long as there are more guns than citizens in the country.

In other countries, the police don't have to regard every person on the street as a potential killer, because none of those people are likely to have guns.
Most of us, of course, aren't walking around with guns, but the police seem to train for constant threat.