“It’s a no-win situation,” said Nicole Dillard, who voted against the policing question. Dillard, who is Black, said she was no fan of Minneapolis police, but she worried the ballot measure was a backdoor effort to simply abolish the police, which was untenable in a neighborhood where gun violence has killed and wounded dozens of people this year. “We need someone to call, and if it’s not police, who will it be?” Dillard said. “We already don’t have enough police on the street.”