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in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood too good to let go down the drain. The Haight Ashbury neighborhood council and its safety committee made several specific requests of the Police commission today. They want four beat patrolman on the street all the time between central and stand in. They

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want more black police officers there and they want more police officers. What we are asking for is not just beat policemen, but we are asking that they be regularly assigned to shifts on Haight Street so that they can become acquainted with people on the street and

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the people on the street can become acquainted with them. We believe this is very important in the control of criminal activity on the street. There will be some contact actually established between the police department and the and the street. And this is the only way that

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it can be done. It isn't going to be done by people driving up and down in patrol cars. We have not come here with any ultimatums for the police commission. We expect reasonable action on our, on the demands which we have made within a reasonable period

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of time. We have not said do this within five days or do it in 10 days, but let me make it perfectly clear that we expect to be back and we expect to be at the doorstep of every responsible politician in this city. Uh, if our

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requests are not satisfying, we asked the commission to increase the The complement of policemen at park station to an additional 40 policemen. We feel that this is an adequate number to do the job and consistent with the captain's request. And we feel that the violence that

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we have seen recently in the Haight Ashbury is indicative of a climate that exists today and and citizens like myself and others who are longtime residents are vitally concerned with what's going to happen to our neighborhood. And this is the point that we were trying to

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make to the commissioner's this afternoon, and I certainly hope that they got the message. The commission said it was well aware of the problem, made reference to the tremendous shortage of police officers and promised the group it would give the problems in the Haight Ashbury its

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undivided attention. Pat O'brien, for eyewitness News at the SAN Francisco Hall of Justice.