Agreed. I was for defunding the police years before the kids thought of it. Not 100% , that would be stupid. But enough in certain areas it would make them use their limited resource to oh I dunno, catch real crooks instead of papers please and speeding tickets for 6kmph over at 4am on a rural road in the middle of nowhere.

You know what they say, when you subsidise something, you get more of it. And in this case these days, the Stasi (not calling them cops anymore until they cut out the covid1984 nonsense) seem to be a case of, too much police, not enough to do.

Cut their vehicle budget say, and their laser radar gun budget a bit. Keep tweaking it every now and again until they are forced to start solving real crimes instead of giving tickets to people chirping their tyres...