I don't know anything about it, and you may very well be right that it's a rotten department with rotten officers and rotten leadership... If so, all that makes sense, but that is not what they're saying, and it isn't what they're proposing.
They are NOT saying that they are going to scrap what they have, start from scratch and rebuild their police department. They are saying, "Yes. We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of public safety." Appearently this "new" model does not include what we think of as a police department. I am drawing a total blank as to what she might mean. Seriously, without law enforcement I just don't see how you can realistically envision "public safety". The two are integral to each other.
"To do this kind of big work, we need a deeper, broader conversation than we’ve ever had before,” she said. “We need white people, like me and my neighbors, to show up in a different way.” Again, not being a communist, or versed in New Speak, I don't know what this means either...? It's English, but I don't understand what she means other than:
Even when it's about black people...it's still about white people.
Addressing the difficult and intractable cultural issues that underlie all this (that are uncomfortable to talk about) makes you a racist. But, it's courageous to speak in virtue-signaling platitudes, and meaningless jargon, saying things that all people generally agree with and that get applauded by the media. It's shit like this that makes me tend to start believing all the people who think these are the signs of our demise, and The Republic is in the twilight hours as spoiled children rend it from within.