Too many cities want the revenue from tickets without the expense of trials, court appointed attorneys, and lockup expenses for violent and thieving offenders.
In Kaleefornia when a local small town gets rid of its Police force, the Sheriff’s Department takes over. I won’t name the county, but there is one county where at different times, small cities let their Police Departments go. The problem with that was that the Sheriff’s Department didn’t play politics or go along with the local graft in these cities. As soon as was possible, the cities reinstated their Police Departments.