When I say “abolish the police,” someone often comes along and asks “but who will protect women from abusive and predatory men?” And the answer is that, for many women, the people who will defend them in the absence of police is those women themselves.

“According to statistics compiled by the ACLU, women who kill their partners will spend an average of 15 years behind bars, while men who kill their female partners serve much shorter sentences, on average between 2 to 6 years.”

https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/in-the-news/women-serve-longer-prison-sentences-after-killing-abusers

Women Serve Longer Prison Sentences After Killing Abusers

Women statistically face longer prison sentences after killing an abusive partner, as compared to men who kill the women they're abusing.

DomesticShelters.org

@HeavenlyPossum But without the police, who will protect women from the police?!

More seriously, I do kind of worry what the abusers employed as police would do if they were suddenly unemployed en masse. They would no longer have the cover from polite society, but they would have a *LOT* of free time to make it everybody’s problem.

@bob_zim @HeavenlyPossum this is something i worry about. Historically, when you demobilise a militarised class they tend to revolt. EG: condottiere; janissaries; mameluks; samurai; et cetera...