Most Black folks want safety in their neighborhoods, period, and that is not possible without police and hence most support it. You don't hear "Defund the Police" anymore because we know how well it worked out.

In Seattle, many police quit or transferred on grounds that they refuse to serve a populace that sought to defund them. Net-net was that police force size and responsiveness dropped.

After this, our Black mayor ran on a campaign of funding the police and won.

What city defunded their police?

None, it's a fantasy

We slashed police funding in Portland and decimated the force available (to the point where the 911 response time to a robbery in my building was ~6 hours, local businesses my friends work at have private security for employees to call instead of 911, I've been on hold for the non-emergency police line for over 3 hours on multiple occasions, etc).

Things are swinging back the other direction now, as seen by people like Rene Gonzalez (who ran on re-funding and utilizing police toward the local homeless problems) beating out the incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty (who refused to work with police in almost any capacity) in 2022, and a few more police re-funding votes passed since then.

To play devil's advocate, my city is very police friendly and calling 911 for a non-emergency is a coin toss on whether they actually show up.

Minorities wanted police reform. They weren't for abolishing the police.