What Would Disbanding the Morality Police Mean for Iran?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Enforcement of the morality codes relaxed slightly after the election in 2013 of Hassan Rouhani as president.
48% : Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, asked over the weekend about the morality police at a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia, did not deny that the force had been abolished and only said: "In Iran, everything is moving forward well in the framework of democracy and freedom,"
42% : The United Nations has said that about 14,000 people have been arrested.
39% : "For ordinary Iranians, the morality police are now irrelevant," said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, an independent organization based in New York.
37% : "No official in the Islamic Republic of Iran has confirmed the reports of the Guidance Patrol being abolished," the report said.
35% : Across Iran, hundreds of protesters have suffered severe eye injuries inflicted by the metal pellets and rubber bullets that security forces fire to disperse crowds.

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