I disagree with this for rural county and small town police forces and Sheriffs.
As this Regime collapses, people will look to the local forces that can impose some sort of order and keep out urban criminal robbers and looters- even if it is the Cartels.
Better to have existing police force structure.
We may be anti-big government, but a lot of us aren’t anti-government.
Having a structure of law (as we do, or did, in our Republic) and governments at all levels maintaining law enforcement mechanisms at appropriate levels is something that allows us to go to work every day and leave our houses empty.
The fact that we have had legally passed legislation that was enforced from the locally organized police up through the FBI (which provided a democratically agreed on framework for the type of society we all agreed via our representatives in government) made it possible to provide societal stability and protection from crime.
We have seen what happens when that is removed, as is being done.
As this Regime collapses, people will look to the local forces that can impose some sort of order and keep out urban criminal robbers and looters- even if it is the Cartels.
If one were to take Georgia, and its rural counties and small towns, they are mostly as RED as you can get. And there are lots of folks with guns. Lots of guns. Why can’t the people maintain that order and keep the bad folks out?
Hell, even the rural areas that are predominantly black, those folks might vote Democrat, but they can defend themselves, too.