The announcement of the street-duty pullback followed statements earlier this week that police next week would begin a new round of sensitivity training and training instruction on the city’s social media policy.

In addition, the city personnel director has said he will require all 7,200 merit-system employees to get additional training on social media, anti-discrimination and anti-harassment rules, not just police.

Krewson spoke in the interview a few hours after she and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards briefed a dozen or so aldermen on her administration’s response to the Plain View Project disclosures. The meeting, in an aldermanic office area, wasn’t announced in advance.

She said in the interview that in addition to explaining the street-duty pullback, she and Edwards said “we are continuing to look at the rest of the officers (on the Plain View list) and figure out what the appropriate response is.”

She said they also discussed the “anti-bias cultural competency training” planned for police although she observed that “it’s hard to tell what’s in people’s hearts.”

“We think it helps; we think it is the right thing to do,” the mayor said.