Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said he’s pledging to end animal abuse as mayor with the creation of a Los Angeles Police Department task force called “PAWS.”“There’s a reason ‘Dog’ is just ‘God’, backwards; they share an unconditional love for mankind. Both Nithya and Karen Bass ignore these poor animals being killed on Skid Row and in their city shelters. They don’t care. I will put an end to this horror. VOTE to save these animals,” Pratt wrote on X Saturday.Pratt is facing current city Mayor Karen Bass and city council member Nithya Raman, who are both Democrats, in the primary election.

Pratt said the Protecting Animal Welfare and Safety task force will help implement a program that will clear out Skid Row, where he said animal abuse occurs daily.

“Anyone caught abusing animals is going to prison, I will have zero tolerance for animal abuse in our city,” Pratt said in a video posted on X.

The five steps of Pratt’s plan are:

End the abuse