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I'm a fan of dismantling police forces since they are extensions of local government (I.E hired through city planners) and hiring private contractors for security. Since they would no longer be under the pay-roll of the government but instead the pay-roll of private citizens it creates a lot less instances of corruption.
What I envision is dividing the city into sections and take bids on what security firm wants to have a presence in each block, and have competing bids. Because of the naturalistic tendencies of a business they will do their job with utmost efficiency or risk losing the bid and their income.
This also allows for the block to routinely vote as a community whether or not the force is to be ejected or replaced based on performance. For example if the current force is stopping rapes from happening in your city block then one could say they're doing an exemplary job, if the current force is sitting on their ass citing people for going 2 over the speed limit whilst other issues take precedence one could say they need to be replaced.
Since police forces do not have this type of democratic process, they're tightly nursed by a system that only offers up suspensions with no citizen output in the process. So a bad cop can be a bad cop all the way into retirement without any sort of check and balance on his character.
I would like to try a social experiment to try this out, but I don't think it could ever be fully backed.
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This is an interesting idea, however can you explain how you would get rid of the "free rider" problem? The "free rider" is the true reason why taxes and goverment exist. Why would i pay for a road/service that would help everyone when i can just wait for my neighbour to buck up?