The police serve to keep us safe, and while their are undeniably some examples of police exerting excessive force to enforce laws, the vast majority of officers are good people who want to protect their community. By abolishing the police we would live in a state with no guaranteed protection for its citizens. While it is tempting to hope that people would be willing to set aside their differences and set aside violence, the reality is that there would be mass crime with no figures of authority available to enforce the law. The absence of police would also create a vacuum of power that would attract groups that would perform biased and unfair vigilante justice that would cause more harm than good.