The police and prison abolitionists are more ridiculous, because I can at the very least imagine how the neo-crusader society would function. I cannot imagine how a world without law enforcement wouldn't just result in one of the following:
1. Lynch mobs
2. Police and prisons by a different name
3. Private security/militias
4. Complete and utter chaos like in the Purge movies
OK, but I’m not even talking about the practical consequences here. It’s more of a vibes thing. The abolitionist types are more like “f—k the man, f—k the system” punk anarchist types. It’s cringe in its own way, and has 0% chance of translating to reality, but it’s just not quite as inherently absurd as cosplaying LARPers hooked on CK3 and TradCath Twitter acting like a return to a Middle Ages feudal type society is any more plausible. Which btw it isn’t. Just because such a society existed like 800 years ago doesn’t mean it could today.