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Data thresholds may vary. From KQED. Welcome back to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We're joined now by

Julian Castro, former HUD secretary, former San Antonio Mayor, and the only Latino to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Castro is still on the campaign trail, working to increase voting rates and on turning Texas blue, among other things. Julian Castro, welcome to Forum.

Hey, it's great to be with you, Mina. You know, we were just talking in the previous segment about a police reform effort in San Francisco

that removes police from many mental health-related crisis calls.

And, you know, you also made police reform a focus of your campaign, and I saw advocating

for removing police from certain settings as well, like school discipline and so on,

also making misconduct data more accessible.

And what do you think the Democrats need to do?

What do they need to be forcefully advocating for in terms of police accountability?

A number of things.

And I think Joe Biden had it right a few months back when he said that

we can take several steps that are basically a down payment on what we need to do in the

months and years to come to ensure that we can both have public safety, keep community safe,

but also reimagine policing so that we don't

see what happened to George Floyd happen again, and we're able to be more effective at getting

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