Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
They can hire collectively, so can entire neighbourhoods. Taxes can lower if we dismantle the police so that shouldn't be a problem. Another advantage, the most dangerous criminal is a corrupt cop, who's going to protect the small shopkeeper abuse from them?
Yes, we could hire collectively. But who should organise it? Maybe everyone in the parish (borough, county, postcode?) should vote to form a Policing Committee. And maybe some of that Committee should also attend a regional organisation, so as to ensure that information is shared and cooperation effective. And then members of that organisation could form a national body to coordinate the whole thing. And then after a few years the whole thing would become an institution, thus defeating the whole purpose of the exercise. Except that now the police presence would have "Group 4" instead of a Crown. Not very reassuring.