ms. o'meara, this next question. how will you reach out to and work with low-income communities, here in the city? >> well, there seems to be a deficit in our outreach towards low-income communities. primarily black, brown, lgbtq, youth populations. therefore, that means that there needs to be some aggressive outreach towards those communities. i am around or surrounded by some of those communities. and i see part of the problem is also, like i said, low-performing schools. and i spoke to the principal of the school close to my house. she said there had been an improvement, in fact, in the school's performance. but we need more of it, because we have a generation of people who were caught up in the '80s and '90s with a lot of the aftermath of the civil rights movement, got caught up in that whole drug culture. and basically it was a kind of a holocaust of black people. >> moderator: thank you. >> that were either incarcerated or they were deprived of opportunities to succeed in life. >> moderator: thank you. thank yo

ms. o'meara. >> everyone has touched on very sensitive issues here, regarding the police. i'm going to keep my answer really simple. i think the process needs to be community-based, just as dean suggested. i think having some sort of neighborhood watch that's all-inclusive and diverse is a better problem to -- a better solution to the problem than -- what happens is -- forest hill, in the sunset for eight years and the lower haight where i lived for ten years. i think i have a fair sense of my neighbors, who they are in district 5. and i think taking a more -- what i call a humanist approach to protection is more p paltable for neighbors a strong police presence tends to -- people make half expressions on police for historical reasons, that we all know. and i don't need to be here giving you a lecture on that. >> moderator: thank you. thank you very much. okay. the next question will be for ms. brown. there have been police shootings in san francisco in the past. what's your position on what we sh