S.F. Mayor Breed proposes new 'wellness' teams to shift more mental-health calls away from police FacebookTwitterEmail Capt. Jennifer Ishikawa speaks with Raymond Djasrabe in San Francisco in August. The mayor proposed an expansion of the city’s teams to handle noncriminal calls for assistance.Noah Berger/Special to The Chronicle 2020 Expanding on what officials called a promising start to San Francisco’s new police-free mental health crisis teams, Mayor London Breed is proposing a sister division that would respond to lower-level “wellness” calls that traditionally have been handled by armed officers. The street wellness response teams would represent the latest in the city’s efforts to dial back police presence from calls for service that don’t involve criminal activity — particularly those involving mental health and homelessness.