You mean the link? The link that demonstrates the existence of an armed militia? You mean the link that lists CHAZ as some kind of template, when crime spiked once the police pulled out, before the whole thing collapsed? You mean that?
The entire thing seems more like an argument for replacing a police force with a militia force. I'm dubious of the difference.
That isn't an answer.
Also not an answer.
Yes, of course I might be wrong. I might be wrong about a lot of things. You might be wrong. "What if you're wrong" isn't a counter-argument.
And were these situations where you yourself were threatened, or when others were threatened?
Actually, on average, the world's getting better, not worse.
I'm not attributing that solely to capitalism mind you. But claiming everything bad in the world is due to capitalism is just as assinine as claiming everything good is due to it as well.
And would police make that state of affairs worse or better?
The answer is no to all questions. But most of what you're describing comes off as an argument for more police, not less of them.
Because murder, kidnapping, and starvation never happened before capitalism.
Seriously, why do these ideas keep coming up? Either capitalism is responsible for everything bad, or for everything good. Neither of these positions are tenable.
Let's take that as being true. Exploitation isn't the sole purview of capitalism. You only have to look at China or the Soviet Union, or heck, all of human history for evidence of that. Also, even if we focus on capitalist countries, the United States is even more capitalist than Australia, and has far more geo-political influence. By your logic, it should have less crime than Oz, not more.
Saying "get rid of capitalism and everything will be better" isn't really an argument. All the problems of the world didn't evaporate when we got rid of feudalism or mercantilism. They certainly weren't solved when, in the 20th century, various countries adopted socialism.
Also, I actually looked it up. If we're focusing on police killings, the most peaceful countries in the world are Switzerland, Denmark, and Iceland, whereas the most violent is Venezuela. The former are capitalist, the latter is socialist. Which countries are those three exploiting?
In case you're asking whether I think "capitalism is peace, socialism is murder," no, of course not. But there's no real linear relationship between an economic system and the level of police brutality.
(Seriously, how the hell did a discussion about policing get entwined with economic systems?)
I love your logic. It's the logic of "X has a problem, let's get rid of X."
I noticed that no-one answered my original question. The police in the United States kill about 1000 people per year. Annual gun deaths come to around 40,000. If the police were removed, would the latter figure go up, or go down? And that's a question that every country in the world would have to answer, and not just gun deaths, crime in general.