Dude literally says we don't know what those consequences would be, but if doing away with policing as it is currently constituted is accompanied by a significant increase in resources to eliminate the causes of crime, why would you expect crime to go up unless you think everyone around you is secretly a monster whose base urges are only held in check by the threat of state violence?
I don't think
everyone around me is secretly a monster held in check only by fear of state violence. I think that some unknown but not insignificant portion of people around me are pretty much animals whose behavior is held in check by fear of consequences rather than by any inherent moral decency. As it stands, state authority is probably the main kind of consequence holding those people in check. Propose me an alternative kind of consequence other than "everybody packing a gun", and I'd be more open to the idea of dispensing with the police.
He also contends that the issue isn't having some body to maintain order and enforce laws, but the nature of modern policing and society itself.
Okay, so he'd like to replace the police with some other public body that maintains order and enforces laws but isn't the police?
-k
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