For large population centres to exist, you need some kind of central authority to dictate common rules to ensure stability and social cohesion. The police have been shown NOT to be this as they are too easily corrupted by politics, bribes and ideology.
Being honest, if we could replace the police in urban areas with drones whether flying with guns or literal humanoid robots looking like they came out of battlestar galatica with a binary set of laws (this person is trying to kill people, neutralise person) it would be a massive improvement. Urban areas need 'Judge Dredd' style enforcement to ensure that large numbers are too fearful of retribution to use numbers against innocent people.
In rural areas police can be more an extention of a militia because they know everyone there so their task can be mostly ensuring the town delinquents are kept out of trouble and watching outsiders.
For large population centres to exist, you need some kind of central authority to dictate common rules to ensure stability and social cohesion. The police have been shown NOT to be this as they are too easily corrupted by politics, bribes and ideology.
Being honest, if we could replace the police in urban areas with drones whether flying with guns or literal humanoid robots looking like they came out of battlestar galatica with a binary set of laws (this person is trying to kill people, neutralise person) it would be a massive improvement. Urban areas need 'Judge Dredd' style enforcement to ensure that large numbers are too fearful of retribution to use numbers against innocent people.
In rural areas police can be more an extention of a militia because they know everyone there so their task can be mostly ensuring the town delinquents are kept out of trouble and watching outsiders.