Nope, not really. The police are now more than ever, 800,000 (the US Army is 1,300,000). Not many cuts anywhere.

Crime has some correlation with police presence but not so much, an elasticity of 0.5%. You'd have to jump the police by 10%, and they're already the 2nd budget line item expense after schools, to get a minor decrease is so-called crime - stolen bicycles, petty theft, speeding - they throw in everything to boost the numbers and make it look like they need more funding.

You also get a black cloud over the neighborhoods, a military armed occupation. That what you want? Do 800,000 black-uniformed police in their black-out cars make you feel safer? Maybe you want more surveillance? Maybe you want more black kids killed? Fifty years ago there was no massive police presence and no real crime.

There's been a 20% increase in crime (mainly robbery) since the pandemic (but recent decreases in homicide and rape)- caused not by fewer police, but by the pandemic. Social programs are less expensive and more effective than police. In my town, Boston, crime has dropped, and with no police increase.

Consider Australia or Canada, both have far fewer police per capita and also far less crime per capita.

You could cut the police in half with no terrible spike in crime. Note that a 50% cut is not down to zero - they'd still be 400,000 military trained and armed police. Ridiculous to scream about anarchy.

And is everyone aware of police sexual assault, which is rarely reported (to the police?) and meets with the code of silence, and is never prosecuted.

"Approximately 1,600 police officers across the United States were arrested for sex-related crimes during the ten year period 2005-2014. The arrested officers were employed by more than 1,100 state and local law enforcement agencies located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. These data suggest that police sexual violence is a problem involving more than a few “bad apples” and that the phenomenon of police sexual violence may be a cultural norm within many state and local law enforcement agencies."

The police have a penchant for preteen sexual assault, by the way.

https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/crim_just_pub/106/