Police serve the state, so one one hand, once we have a proletarian state, it will be taken over to oppress the bourgeoisie. This seems fine, at least initially.

However, I can’t help but feel that the way the current police/prison system is organized is not the best way to tackle the actual issue of crime.

Putting prisons aside for just a second, are there better alternatives to the “police”? How do they look like? Do we just have small local “crisis response task forces” for major crimes and patrols for petty ones? Is that any different from the current response/patrol cops necessarily?

And while yes, we can of course improve people’s conditions so they don’t need to e.g. steal, I’d like to focus on the fact that crime will likely occasionally still happen, from the potential jealous art thievery to a murder - and how we should address those once they happen/as they are happening.