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correct. Good enough. Left face. Lefty, huh. Mhm. Right face. Mhm. Well, the redevelopment agency felt that with all of the change that's occurring in the communities in our two projects here in the Bay View section, that it would add a bit more stability to to

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the community if the agency could afford through its property management section, some force to assist the community, some force out of the community to assist with the changes that are occurring. Why do you go this route instead of using SAn Francisco Police Department personnel? Well, for

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one thing, we are very anxious to to create a sense of community identity with, with the change that's occurring here. Another reason is we find that we've talked to the police and they work very closely with the program but they don't have the time nor the

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manpower to to give us the day today attention to to the small things that are occurring, but that are very important to the community. You've got 30 who are graduating in this class. Will there be others to follow? Well, not at this time, not there won't

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be an immediate new training course. What we do is we try to develop these men as very well qualified security guards, give them the experience of working here in the project area and of course we hope that they will go on to bigger and better things.

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We feel that the saN Francisco Police Department can certainly use some more qualified men and we'd like to see them go on to better things. But most importantly, evolved. It's a service to this community now that we are hoping to stabilize as a result of the

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2.5 months of training. How well qualified are they? Oh, I think they're a sharp group of guys. I think they can variably handle the job. Mhm. Hey man goes to the reef. All right. Career hood. Yeah. Uh huh. Okay. Unit. How? Yeah. Yeah. Right.

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Face parade rest hit it. Yeah. How long you been training? Yeah. one month, 2 months. You're all recruits called? Uh Yeah. Um I want to ask you whether fellas feel as though you're able to handle any situation on. Oh no. I mean when when would you

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start being an excellent now look. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. For these 30 young graduates, their jobs as security guards and Hunters point will last at least five years. And conceivably the job will extend to at least 10 years. This is Ed Arnold for eyewitness news

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in san Francisco's Hunters Point.