I mean if the concern is getting rid of the police would result in violent gangs roaming the streets who are accountable to no one, I have bad news for you about who the police are.
If you remove the police there would be a power vacuum, and it would be filled with criminals/gangs, and also local militias of private citizens carrying guns, and vigilantes/hitmen, and everyone buying a gun for their own protection. Either way, yes there's going to be people roaming the streets with guns no matter what, and I'd prefer they at least be someone accountable. I'd rather Canada not turn into Somalia where the rule of law was non-existent for a long period and society was ruled by competing warlords.
Why do you need some juiced up prick with a gun to enforce speed limits?
If there's no cops why would anyone obey any laws? Are they just suggestions? Why would I pay a speeding ticket? Who's going to make me? What is the punishment for unpaid speeding tickets? Unfiled tax returns? Who would force me to go to court? People could just buy a gun and steal cars or rob stores for a living, who will stop them?
The vision of the Defund movement may be utopian, but it is far more realistic than your notion that we can make the police accountable while maintaining the existing model, or that the issues with police are down to a few "bad apples." Frankly, it's a f**king joke.
Have we ever tried to make police more accountable? I just don't see it. It happened with Chauvin, and he got convicted. The police chief even testified against him, the thin blue line was broken. Have we ever REALLY tried to reform the system? And I agree that maybe reform isn't possible and they have to fire all the cops and rehire and train a new group from scratch with new oversight and training.
Also I never said there's just a few bad apples, there's lots of bad apples that get away with a lot of BS and others who say nothing because if they did they'd be harassed by other cops as a narc. The system doesn't work.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/what-police-departments-do-whistle-blowers/613687/
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