I’m going to quote something I wrote in June of 2020 regarding the idea of police abolition or replacing current police with new officers while also changing the way policing works entirely:

How often do you think that is likely to be?

So currently there is this huge unaccountable group known as cops, who are effectively above the law and are white supremacists.

When they are out of jobs, they are going to be angry. There is not going to be a force to “police” them and they are used to being able to violently put people down.

Worse, most of them own personal weapons. I mean, they’re white supremacists and right wing nutjobs and all.

Meaning it could happen a great deal initially, and would be the very same people currently causing the current riot: cops.

When they lose their jobs, mark my words, this isn’t over, and them and the people who support them are heavily armed and regular citizens and the new citizen policing organizations will potentially not be well armed enough to deal with them.

Unless the new President is willing to label them terrorists and enemies of the state and mobilize the military against them… well, I mean, I just don’t know how long the violence will last but it will be a long time.

This isn’t over by a long shot, these people will not go silent into that good night. Which is fucking horrifying. All I want is for them to go silently into that good night. They will not relinquish their power without a long, bloody fight.

I mean, this article is all about how lawless they are. You don’t think they’re going to just steal all the weapons and body armor and ammo from each precinct and take them home and act like they have no idea what happened to them all? Who is going to march in and arrest them and enforce it?

I mean, there’s actually a whole shitload of these dudes, even though there’s more of us. We were already having regular incidents of white supremacist terrorism long before any of this.

Does anyone think that is going to stop because we disbanded the police? If anything, they’ll use it as opportunity.

I say this as someone who is 100% on the side of police abolition. But yeah, I think this guy is right that a specialized force of some kind might still be necessary to contain psychotic assholes with high powered weaponry and a history of being lawless pricks.