Reform is necessary. In a literal and figurative sense both. Reform the Police should be the message. Make the Police force live up to that old line "to serve and protect", to provide justice.
Yeah, to get proper value out of a service it usually needs a little more funding, not less.
Get rid of them, replace the traffic part with a dedicated and much-cheaper traffic enforcement group, and start over with a far smaller police force (no more traffic enforcement, which is a ton of the work they do) with completely different training. The current form of police forces needs to be replaced, the fundamental structure is broken, it's not fixable.
Yeah, to get proper value out of a service it usually needs a little more funding, not less.