What would be different if there was no police

[a completely inoffensive name]

You can always hire a different company, so it's in their interest to do a good job. It's not in the interest of the police to do a good job you are stuck with them anyway, and the bigger the problem the more money they get from the state to fix it. Do you need police to watch shopping malls, security does just fine, so why not expand that to the entire public domain?

Saying that you can always hire a different company is an assumption that does not always hold true. I want fast internet, oh well I have a "choice" of Comcast or AT&T in my region. AT&T is charging me too much, I want to switch. Well Comcast knows they are the only other company, so they put a strangle on my wallet by charging as much if not more then AT&T. I don't want to stick with one crappy company but the only way to ditch it is to shell out tons of money to the other. If I decline to give either of these companies my money, I am without protection period and anyone can come kill me and my family.

Quite frankly, I don't trust mercenaries to genuinely care about my safety, they only want my money, cops in local areas are generally from the area and have a connection to the region.

EDIT: Also, no one reports the times when cops do their jobs right as often as when they do it wrong. When a cop does his job right, the outcome is usually boring (waiting for a deranged person to simply come outside and give up after a 5 hour standoff or waiting for a car chase to result in an empty tank of gas and one screwed escapee). You all know how it is, it's the same with guns. Guns are killing everyone! We hear about it everyday, but I'm sure a lot of those I am arguing against here would agree that there are many, many cases where the guns do their job safely and correctly with the proper use by responsible citizens.