When people talk "Abolish the Police," these are the goals

It is, unfortunately, a very nuance and involved take that cannot be distilled down to anything useful. Hence it ends up at defund or abolish.

But read through this NYT article that talks about how you basically defund and strip away many of the things that the police do that they should not do - as we've seen repeatedly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/us/defund-police-floyd-protests.html

Those who support the movement to scale back the responsibilities of the police say officers frequently abuse their power and instigate violence rather than prevent it. They say many social welfare tasks that currently fall to armed police officers — responding to drug overdoses, and working with people who have a mental illness or are homeless — would be better carried out by nurses or social workers.

One model that members of the Minneapolis City Council cite is Cahoots, a nonprofit mobile crisis intervention program that has handled mental health calls in Eugene, Ore., since 1989. Cahoots employees responded to more than 24,000 calls for service last year — about 20 percent of the area’s 911 calls — on a budget of about $2 million, probably far less than what it would cost the Police Department to do the work, said Tim Black, the program’s operations coordinator.

You then have a smaller but more community oriented group of beat cops that come from these community, aren't dressed like SWAT members, and aren't expected to deal with things that are outside of their scope. With little training given and a mentality of everyone is trying to kill me, you're able to reorient.