If a resident would like a hunter, police visit the site. There are 66 sites approved for hunting right now. Hunters have to show they can meet a minimum proficiency level with their equipment before they can be accepted into the program. Police personally introduce hunters to the property owner whose land they will be hunting, too, and if that owner isn't comfortable with that particular hunter, the hunter will be moved to another site. Hunters can hunt only the site assigned them.
Hunters have to produce, too, if they want to stay in the program.
They fill out log sheets throughout the hunting season that list the dates they hunted, their times in and out, and the number of deer they saw on a particular day, sorted by age and sex. They are encouraged to shoot as many deer as they can, with the borough agreeing to pay the cost of butchering any they can't use. The meat is then given to the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. But my hunters are not buck hunting, they are meat hunting. If everybody brings in at least two, that makes my job easier.