It might seem odd for a totalitarian socialist movement to run with slogans like "Abolish the Police," but it's perfectly consistent with their worldview. They despise the legitimate functions of limited government because they saddle the State with duties to sovereign citizens.
It's no coincidence that people who want to radically expand the size, power, and funding of our already titanic central government usually take a dim view of the things our constitutionally-limited federal system is SUPPOSED to be doing.
A government with sworn duties to all of its citizens is limited in power, especially if those duties take precedence over all the big plans socialists wish to impose through coercive force. Socialism requires unequal treatment by definition. It cannot function otherwise.
If the State has sworn duties to all of its citizens, then it has trouble treating them unequally to impose the elite's notions of "social justice" and enforced equality. Socialism requires the use of force to take money, property, and opportunities from some and give to others.
Police work is a tangible reminder that the State has duties to all of its citizens. The police are supposed to "protect and serve" everyone. They don't ask if you feel like you have a right to loot that TV set from Wal-Mart or take jewelry from a rich woman's house.
The hard Left sees the police as a mercenary army enforcing the privileges of its class and racial enemies. The police are the enforcement arm of the old model of limited government with duties to all of its sovereign citizens.
The socialist vision of an almighty central elite enforcing social justice and income redistribution would have a vast army of enforcers, but they won't be the kind of police we're accustomed to. They would enforce the vision of the state rather than protecting individual rights.
The Left is pretty open about saying that traditional police work is antithetical to their vision of enforced social justice. It's partly a big pander to community-organized inner city constituencies and virtue-signaling upper-class leftists, but it's also part of their ideology.
The hard Left is rather blunt about stating that law enforcement interferes with their business of redressing "grievances" and imposing "social justice." They really hate the way police help create safe communities that don't feel the hot urgency of left-wing social demands.
The police will protect your right to life and property without asking if you "fairly" earned the money in your pocket or "deserve" the property a person with "grievances" is trying to steal. The Left will use its power to replace the police with social justice enforcers. /end
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