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