link to original reddit post by /u/omgcoin
I kinda sick and tired hearing conservatives worshiping police, they always complain that if police is underfunded, then crime will skyrocket.
What many statists are unable to realize is that it doesn't really matter how underfunded police is. They will still make sure to arrest you in many countries if you shoot a thief.
In high crime areas, police just doesn't care about chasing running criminals but it's still very easy for them to arrest you if you defended yourself.
Police is also very good at imposing legal tender laws to keep fiat system alive and tax collection. Without police, all these laws will be just meaningless wall of words on pieces of paper.
Even in Venezuela, even in highest crime areas, police still works very efficiently to protect state interests. Otherwise, we wouldn't even talk about hyperinflation there. Without real physical force imposing legal tender laws, you would never even hear about inflation of Venezuelan bolivar because it would be in nobody's hands in the first place.
The real reason behind civil war and chaos when state collapses is that state disarmed their general population decades before. So when state collapses, it's not surprise that territory will be taken over by competing groups of armed people and general population will be passive bystander at best, and enslaved at worst. Moreover, if firearms were banned many decades ago, general population wouldn't even have a culture of self-defense anymore. It will take years if not decades to make general population get used to firearms as a life-style.
However, what socialists claim as "defund police" has completely different meaning, they just want their own police who will confiscate your private property "for greater good". If they were truly for abolishing any state police, then they wouldn't be socialists because wealth redistribution is physically impossible without state police.