To the police, preventing crime, or even doing street patrols, was not their job.

More than 200 schools in the district were put on alert, and parents organized street patrols.

We are in the process of developing a street patrol, which will eventually work to keep trouble to a minimum.

Once they heard the hard-booted feet of a street patrol, but didn't see it.

Only 46 percent of those in uniform are assigned to street patrols.

"Our soldiers will not be doing street patrols where there have been a lot of deaths," he said.

The city pulled the police off street patrol to do crowd control.

Our street patrols collect fewer than they did ten years ago.

Its street patrols have included from 5 to 15 members, who shave their heads.

Still, traditional community tactics, like street patrols, are out of the question.