Several months ago THE PAPER printed a statement by Donald Whaley, president of the Board of Police Commissioners. He set April as the date for a complete evaluation of Team Policing. At that time it will be decided whether Team Policing is to be continued in the 7th District, expanded to other districts, or discontinued. THE PAPER urges the commissioners to not only retain but enlarge the scope of this innovative program.
In the past year and a half that Team Policing has been in effect in our area THE PAPER has not received a single citizen complaint to the new method of organizing our police force. The response time seems quicker and the officers more knowledgeable about our neighborhood. In our opinion police protection has been improved.
The opinions of the officers who have been working in this management system need, and will surely receive, a thorough hearing by the Board. The commissioners may have more difficulty, however, ascertaining the attitudes of the residents of the 7th District. THE PAPER urges Skinker-DeBaliviere residents to write the members of the Board of Police Commissioners. They are Donald H. Whaley, Clarence T. Hunter, John A. Schicker, Suzanne Hart, Eugene Camp, Mayor James Conway. The address is 1200 clark Street, St. Louis, MO 63102.
Originally published in The Paper, March 1978.
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