“ I wonder what would happen if we simply got rid of cops for a year ...”
Begining of the end of civilization.
Right now the cops are protecting the criminals in many places.
A year of "you shoplift and the store employees beat the ever loving stuffing out of you" and I would bet shop lifting would drop.
Justice always comes, it may come dealt out fairly and with strict rules by who and how it happens or it comes at the hands of the people who are being damaged. But it always comes. And the Oxford solution is getting closer.