GRUNHERZ: Let me put it this way then. Lets say some person with poor morals and values and a car drove into your nice neighborhood, broke into your home, killed your family, and stole some money... Remember there are no police, there is nobody to call to hold that person accountable. Plus there is nobody to enforce any sort of law and there are no more prisons.
Let me answer the question.
That's an idiotic scenatrio - prodcing completely unrealistic conclusions from a simple premise. Police not only keeps very few people from commiting crimes, it also dissuades, distracts resources and actively prevents people from protecting themselves. Why don't you factor in dissapeareance of those restrictions as well?
If there were no state police, I can assure you anyone would not have been able to to drive into my nice neighbourhood nearly as easy as he can now with all the police in presence.
There would have been an electrified wire, signal mines, cameras, motion sensors and a roadblock with a concrete bunker manned by a couple of machinegunners plus patrols and rapid reaction force. Oh, yes - and a row of skulls on a pikeheads. Nobody would ever come in if he were not expected. There would have been no crime, no violence in my nice neighbourhood exactly because people would not rely on police - that generally does a lousy job - catching criminals only after the act and not that often - and there would not be a police to keep us disarmed.
And guess what? It would be much cheaper for me that way - paying for my own weapons, security and private enforcement and participating in my guard duty. Right now the taxes I pay for police are mostly spend in the neighbourhoods other than mine. I would care as little if they kill each other as if they lived in another country - less, actually, since people in the other country are receiving less of my welfare, not voting against me and are not likely to come to my neighbourhood. So you have a quadruple savings here right away.
The more I think about your "no-police scenario", the more I like it!
miko
