You're looking at the 'problem' from the wrong end of the spectrum.
Currently, the problem(s) (they are legion) are that everything the police respond to is more likely to escalate into violence because when all you have is a hammer (gun), everything looks like a nail (target). Even break ins/robberies, cops responding after the fact don't need to be armed. They can show up, take a report, and never be heard from again without firearms.
There is zero reason the US couldn't model our policing after several European countries, where the cops aren't as a default, even armed. They have specially trained officers that they only call when it is deemed necessary. That would be a big part of 'defunding', BTW, which has been explained in the other thread, and the authoritarians here continue to ignore, which is defunding means reducing what is spent on hardware like tanks, assault rifles, grenades, etc, and focus on training, more (unarmed) cops, specific traffic enforcement (unarmed) etc.