Policing and Crime Rates

Key part is "ideally". In Minneapolis, council is already backtracking on defund the police movement as crime has spiked, mostly affecting the poor. Is there an example of a country where there is no police?

Here is a really broad, and hopefully neutral, take on the subject. There is now a popular movement in America that believes the Justice System is too harsh, especially on minor crimes. This is also coupled with the perception that police officers are prone to using force when it is unnecessary, and, that they use deadly force way too often and haphazardly. There is also a huge racial component to all of this, which I'm sure you're probably aware of and I don't want to wade into.<

Do crime rates go up when you stop policing actual crimes?

It seems like you’re just making sweeping generalizations in an effort to do ideological battle.I think people in crime-ridden areas are generally very interested in seeing greater police presence, not less. [1] Studies have shown a larger police presence results in lower arrest rates and lower use of force.And in the vast majority of cases where police are called to a scene they do in fact care deeply, and help effectively.I think it’s easy to get caught up in tempest and start

The police presence is not uniform across every city, they prioritize areas they get the most complaints

Maybe look at places where the police is defunded? Reports that crime skyrockets in such places are plenty to be found.

I live in a city with a monetarily constrained police force.It's great. They take the big stuff (violent crime and trafficking in hard drugs) seriously but don't have time to be running BS task forces, procuring military equipment they don't need and sitting around watching for "sketchy looking" people to harass. I'm sure it sucks to be them and they're all over worked but frankly it's great for the people.Not being seen as jerks gives the local po

This same effect has been seen in cities where the police go on "strike" by not proactively enforcing all the petty crime laws that the city makes money on, notably Baltimore.

This isn't Bay Area.Police aren't ineffective, hell they kill unarmed individuals on a regular basis. That's damn effective to ending any form of future crime!

sending more police will make it better /s