In recent years, dozens of officers worked more than 1,000 hours of overtime annually. Experts say these levels of extra work can lead to accidents and poor decision making in use of force situations.
Wikipedia seems to think they still have a police department. So the police as an institution isn’t being replaced, it’s just being reformed. It’s controlled by a different level of local government and it has different rules now, but it’s still police. If this is what you’re supporting, you’re not for abolishment of police, you’re for police reform. Which the US does heavily need. Abolishment of police means something else entirely.
These questions aren’t being asked in a vacuum: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/12/camden-policing-reforms-313750. Maybe ask a Camdenite? I’m sure we’ve got a few laying about.
Its not a hypothetical to dissolve a department of a government which is dysfunctional and rebuild it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_County_Police_Department
Wikipedia seems to think they still have a police department. So the police as an institution isn’t being replaced, it’s just being reformed. It’s controlled by a different level of local government and it has different rules now, but it’s still police. If this is what you’re supporting, you’re not for abolishment of police, you’re for police reform. Which the US does heavily need. Abolishment of police means something else entirely.