Community about his outstanding record the exceptional background that background that makes the right person person to be chief and his vision for upholding community and the Bureau in his decisions. excited to work with Chief I share in his reflections on George Floyd's death the lack of compassion exhibited by the officers public institutions too often the very. That are supposed protect and serve our community have people specifically our black community, and we just point to this this being that happens in other communities. happens right here Portland and that responsibility to reform the process lies solely with us Mister Floyd's murder announced that reality so loudly. So, unconscionable and people tired and they're hurt and they're grieving, but people are also resilient and people are expecting changes to institutions and I don't mean personnel My My office received literally thousands of emails of of calls of meeting requests of letters calling for accountability and for major policy. Funding changes and how we approach not just policing, But how approach public safety and how we think more broadly about investing in health and well-being of black indigenous and of color in Portland, these demands for dismantling the police investing in investing in indigenous lives and introducing major reforms and I want you to you to know as your I take each of these demands seriously and I want to acknowledge. Leadership the research the movement building black leaders and black led organizations who've doing this very same hard work for decades, making the demands for too long, the city of Portland under invested in communities of color specifically our black community. We've been complacent in passing and enforcing regulations that require full adherence to civil rights protections in our private or. In sectors, I wanna make it clear the root causes and therefore the solutions involve much more than the city Portland's transformation. I wanna be clear the city's transformation is necessary, and that that a responsibility that I as mayor and my colleagues on the city Council focus on relentlessly cities' transformation is necessary, but it's also not. Fish for more just more secure and more resilient, must acknowledge the systemic divestment overt and implicit instances of racial discrimination, a black indigenous and people's of color. I recognize specific demands to our city have been made from black communities for over the last three and a half years I should have. With greater urgency on these demands, as a White man, my privilege as the mayor and the leader of the institutions of power in this community, I believe shielded me from time to time from the many difficult and uncomfortable truths about our history and about society your mayor, I continue to listen and continue continue and I'll continue to have uncomfortable but necessary. Conversations to push the limits of our a community and lead our community's healing and restoration. This is a movement that calls for structural changes, but it also requires a cultural shift disrupts dismantled White We foster the type of transformational change to reach this vision in the ways that the community desires. If we don't, we put our. At risk risk further disenfranchise communities, my team and spent many hours over the last few weeks, talking talking to lots people, listening and exploring options that the the city connect immediately and the actions and reforms I'll share today. police dollars dollars reinvest in people to a more more just city and reform public safety standards at the end of the. All of these things I believe will help lift the community and make us all safer, can't do it incrementally. We must do it through and deliberate actions. These are the actions demanded the community and reflected in the Urban League of Portland State of Oregon and the African-american Forums People's Plan. The public has given us this historic. To reimagine what policing and public safety generally looks like in Portland and and across America and the vision must include looking at everything how we recruit how we train how how we policies that we put in place and how we engage with the community. Everything needs to be on the we need to fundamentally change the police and how we interact. Police in our daily lives work with with city Council colleagues leaders across the region and leaders in the community on what comes next around the nation history is being written. These actions are long overdue government isn't doing this alone. We're doing it with you with our community partners with our black leaders and community. Here's just a few highlights We prop. redirect over seven million dollars from the police Bureau and Five million dollars from other city funds directly to communities of color, reinvesting 12 million dollars, we're going to dissolve the gun violence.