[yareal]

I don't believe I said the historical systems were better or preferable.

Please double check the post I made, I highlighted the existence of alternative systems not to say "return to tradition", but rather to say "police forces as we know them today are not axiomatic. We can invent other systems."

Police may be an improvement on those past systems, while at the same time be outmoded (if one believes they are outmoded.)