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The "abolish police" crowd you're talking about were never asking for no policing. They were asking for a change in how it's done. In my opinion, ideally, it would be abolishing the police as it exists today, and implementing community policing in some form. This seems to be a step towards that at least, but one important compenent is that the police should have to be a part of the community being policed. If they're outsiders, like they frequently are today, they have no stake in the community.
Anyway, obviously we still need some kind of policing. The shit you're told is a lie though. People wanted the police system we have today gone and replaced with more effective alternatives. Showing that changing how policing works having a positive effect only proves the point.
However, this doesn't prove anything else. For all we know, from this information, getting rid of police entirely could have a beneficial effect. The data here doesn't give us any information on that, so even the most extreme "no policing" stance that you're strawmaning isn't disproven here. We don't have information to make an inference. It just makes you look stupid to claim this proves more policing is good. I can show you data where that alone has been bad, but obviously that wouldn't prove that sometimes more policing can be good, and I wouldn't make that claim because I'm not an idiot.