The military doesn't casually murder people on the street here, and the military doesn't keep people from dismantling the plutocracy directly. Cops do both.
You're taking isolated cases and going with a questionable assumption that every cop is a murderous baby eater.
You're seeing "defund police" and jumping straight to "but organized crime" and ignoring everyone saying "use the funding to do what police should do, improve communities, help those who need help, stop people from considering crime by improving their situation overall"
It's not that I'm ignoring that, it's that timing is important and you have to address the root of the problem before the symptoms. Police deal with problems they shouldn't have to, but they don't magically go away when you defund the police. If you don't have that stuff in place first, shit is really going to hit the fan, because people will still call the cops for it, except now there's even less training and personnel to deal with it. Then rioting will crank up to 10, and authoritarians like Trump will have their reason for martial law.
Yeah, it's genuinely pretty fucking hard sometimes. Like when police allow right-wing militia groups to help them patrol the streets to enforce a curfew on everyone else, which is a thing that has actually happened in some U.S. cities in the past few weeks. Or when black people start getting hanged in public places all over the country, and every single case is immediately ruled a suicide without investigation. Or when an officer is heard calling "$100 for every n$$$$$ and $50 for every Mexican!" over scanners and there's no response from other officers on at the time except jovial banter.
I'm sure when you hear, say, ten alleged (
totally unbiased) reports like that, you go "omg it's all over the place, this is insane," but unfortunate as these acts are, any given police officer is 0.00014% of the whole. Bad apples don't mean the system itself is bad, just that you need a system to watch the watchmen.
Let's say that Minneapolis had in place a great program for housing and social work, taken from the police budget. What makes anyone think this would have kept George Floyd from dying tragically?
What Minneapolis needed was for the 2 other cops that were watching on to have the training and presence of mind to recognize what was going on and tap Derek Chauvin on the shoulder and say "I got this man, go fill out the paperwork." And later let the chief know the man is in need of some chill time, counselling or whatever.
You look at marine or seal teams, and they might train up to over a year to go do a mission for 6 months, then go back for decompression, deal with PTSD, and do more training. Cops get a measly few weeks of training when they start, and for most of them that's it.