Residents can now leave a routine message for their neighborhood beat officer if no one is available to take the call. To leave a message for a specific officer, residents dial a central number using a touch tone phone. Residents obtain beat numbers and badge numbers whenever they have any personal contact with their neighborhood beat officer, either individually or at crime watch or community meetings. If they don't have those numbers, or have lost them, they can obtain beat numbers and individual badge numbers by dialing a police department number set up for just that purpose. Coordinated City Services Task Force for Problem Properties Complaints come in about a blighted house in the hills.
Upset neighbors worry about drugs being sold out of the house.
Small children are seen ill-clothed and unattended during the day. Garbage and abandoned cars stand in weeds in the front yard. Used hypodermic needles are thrown into neighboring yards and groups of young men seem to be dealing drugs in a dark passage alongside the apartment building. The property is littered with abandoned furniture and garbage. Environmental Health and Public Works deal with clean-up of the property, and police officers work on the drug situation.