“The response to violence works both ways. Neighborhoods will form their own armed patrols with swift, and permanent, justice meted out.”
and without a police department, who’s going be able to stop vigilante actions?
without a police department you just end up with anarchy or the wild-wild west where there was either no law or vigilante law ...
There will be order, and even rules of sorts. Just not the rules to which we are accustomed today. The people who enforce the new rules will do so with decisive actions from which there will be no appeal.
Everybody will hate the new rules. But people crave order more than chaos. They will mostly submit to the new authorities.