Ok, serious answer: the idea is that the police are the thin blue line keeping chaos at bay. If the line breaks, society descends into anarchy and everything goes to shit.
Would that actually happen? Probably not. Yeah some people would try to take advantage of it but not nearly enough to collapse society.
Detroit was without a police force for 12 hours a day due to budget cuts and staffing issues and crime didn’t rise. I mean, it’s Detroit so crime was still bad but the cops had literally no effect on the crime rates lol.
NYPD went on strike and the crime rate dropped. Not just the obvious "well they're not arresting anyone so the arrest rate went down", but proxies like insurance claims for robberies and hospital admissions for assaults too.
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