I'm equally afraid of no police, and calling the police. Figure that out.
This is a very US centric view of policing.
That's hardly the case; police consists of semi-educated goons all over the world. Perhaps not everywhere, but it's not purely concentrated in the US.
This is a very regional US centric view of policing.
There are stories every month of police going out of their way to shoot people or with trigger-fingers turning a normal situation into a police homocide - mostly impacting people of color.