A third panelist, Rachel Harmon, a former federal prosecutor who directs the Center for Criminal Justice at University of Virginia School of Law, said there were risks to eliminating police, or limiting policing to the fighting of crime. “I think we could reduce police a lot, but a society with no government organization to stop people from harming others could put a lot of violence in citizens’ hands,” she said. In particular, she pointed to “the risks of racial bias there, where citizens go out and start doing citizen’s arrests, that in their own ways are very dangerous.”