European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine the ultimate social worker by Mitchell Landsberg associated press when Jack Cambria strolls the familiar streets of Brooklyn Sunset Park people sometimes smile and that something new to the 30yearold police but Cambria is a new Breed of since last Cambria has been a foot a Pioneer in a new movement that is quietly transforming the Public face of the new York police department and its counterparts in More than 100 other american cities by bringing Back the neighbourhood the official title is Community patrol and the Job is both a throwback to the old fashioned cop on a beat and a preview of what Many experts View As the cop of the Cambria arrests roasts drunks and takes reports from crime victims the traditional but he also acts As a Community teaches people How to avoid and prevent helps them rip through government red tape and perhaps most important tens to he describes himself As the ultimate social Day after he walks the same 20square Block quadrant of Sunset a  Brick and Brownstone neighbourhood that has gone through an ethnic and economic Cycle familiar to Many Urban once largely italian and scandinavian its nickname was Fin town Sunset Park Drew thou Sands of puerto rican immigrants in the years follow ing world War it became a Multi Ling multicultural mix of working class asians and in recent it has attracted a new group Young professionals impressed with its pleasant blocks of Brownstone Row drugs Are a big especially the lowering come tenements clumped in sections of the neighbor and particularly along a notorious stretch of 61st Street Between fourth and fifth avenues where Cam Bria spends lots of walking up 61st Street one Day wearing a heavy police jacket and Gray gloves against a frigid Cambria stopped suddenly in front of a five Story apartment building webbed with fire this is a major shooting he opening one of the double he walked into a dim entry Hall and turned left Down a few standing in a sunken Nook lined with he reached to the tile floor and scooped up an inc Square Golden bag that had been emptied of the junkies were unannounced visits Are part of cambrian daily sometimes he catches drug dealers and their customers More they see him coming and but he is convinced Little by he is cleaning up 61st Street and that his work  be done from the front seat of a patrol the drug Trade is cambrian main but there Are he attends Block association and Pat meet Ings to hear Peoples he talks to he visits burglary victims and tells them How to get free locks from the cites victim services he asks the owners of double parked cars to he tries to get action from other City agencies on matters of concern to the residents of his he works at improving the a lot of times its not even he says of the complaints he you the Light is out in front of my sanitation Hast been and you cant Al ways but you there Are eight other officers walking beats in the 72nd which takes in Sunset Park and adjacent Windsor the walking cops cover about half the residential blocks in the which covers Square Miles and had a 1980 population of the 72nd was chosen to test the foot patrol concept because the ethnic and economic diversity of its Popula Tion and its crime rate made it a typical new York in eight More precincts were added to the and More additions Are the idea for new Yorks foot patrol program came from the Vera Institute of a new nonprofit foundation specializes in Law enforcement new Yorks program was based partly on a similar one begun in in arid on subsequent foot patrol programs developed around the it has been 30 years or so since the neighbourhood cop walked the streets of most in the recent foot officers have tended to work in downtown business districts the new style foot patrols have been established in 108 including san Diego and according to Robert director of the school of criminal Justice at Michigan slate which runs the National neighbourhood foot patrol the new patrols Are a response to an Imper Sonal style of Law enforcement that came of age in the 1950s and they put officers in the cars with air conditioning and and physically removed them from the says and there was almost an obsession with the technology included the 911 emergency Tele phone the Bane of Many police police were swamped with Calls Many of them about nonemergency matters and patrol officers spent Large chunks of their time responding to the says was a style of policing in which prevention is secondary and reaction is Pri a byproduct was suspicion and bitterness Between police and the citizens they were sup posed to foot patrols Are not expected to replace motor a but to serve As liaisons to the reduce the number of 911 Calls and help reduce crime by organizing neighbourhoods against in the areas of Flint served by the foot patrol pro Trojanowicz the crime rate dropped by percent during the first three while Telephone Calls for service dropped by 42 a study of the foot patrol program in Newark showed while crime did not drop right Citi Zens Felt safer and believed there was less one thing studies have shown is that police foot offi cers Are happier with their jobs than their colleagues in and feel they know the Good Guys from the bad says so they dont have to be suspicious or defensive with everybody in the no statistics Are available yet on the new York pro a preliminary study by the Vera Institute found a general consensus among citizens that the situation in their areas has improved since the foot officer came on its a Good says Lewis who owns a Small Candy and stationary store on Jack cambrian when you see a cop on the you feel photo children Cluster around policeman Jack his school visit is part of an Effort to bring Back the neighbourhood the stars and stripes Page 13