> If you hold police accountable, they respond by refusing to work. That's a problem that, at this time, has no solution

Of course it does. You dissolve the police department and create a new one. New York did it twice, first replacing the city-controlled Municipals with the state-controlled Metropolitans [1], and then in 1870 creating the NYPD [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_riot

[2] https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/about/history/history-timeline...

> they respond by refusing to work. That's a ~~problem~~ solution that, at this time, has no ~~solution~~ problem.

If a police department reuses to accept accountability, and dig in their heels by refusing to work, "just" dissolve it. And while at it, half the calls could be handled by folks without guns.

In practice that obviously would not go over well, people are too attached to the status quo. We just lack the political will to rethink and retool the system (despite most Americans favoring police reform).

In other countries, cops may carry guns, but if those guns are ever fired, there is an investigation to ensure it was fired for a very good reason. Those places still have cops.

They also have months or years of cop training, not weeks.

The government has had no qualms in the past using the army or national guard to break strikes.

So you're saying that the solution is RICO, because they're operating as a protection racket?

Robots!