"De-Funding the Police" - US

[CharlesHarris]

I hear Rod Serling’s voice:

"Imagine, if you will, a head-in-sand liberal of mis-applied compassion trapped in a decaying city. He supported the de-funding of his own police department, so now there is nobody to protect him. Somali gangs and Mexican drug cartels now rule with violence and terror, extracting protection money from their benefactors. Having made his bed, he now must lay in it, forever afraid, in the Twilight Zone….”

I would be interested in some links which explain in detail the UK model of policing and honest assessments of how that is working...