“One of the things that I am pushing for now is to make sure that police are not responding to those calls that don’t involve violence. Why is it that if someone’s painting in front of their home or doing some sort of chalk drawing that all of a sudden, the police need to be involved? And in many cases when it’s an African American, things can escalate,” Breed said.

“We have to hold our departments accountable,” she added. “We have to make sure that people who are racist that people have who have problems when working with black people in some capacity or may have never been around a black person in their entire life, they should not be working in communities where they may engage with African Americans, which could lead to some of the situations that we’re seeing all over our country.”

“We actually did make an announcement that we are going to reduce funding in the Police Department and redirect that money specifically to the African American community,” she said. “This does not necessarily mean we are going to completely defund the Police Department. It means that we need to look at ways in which we can reduce the amount of resources that we are providing to the Department, redirect those funds to the African American community in San Francisco for better outcomes.