walk the beat

A senior administration official told reporters the plan aims to prevent violent crime by funding officers who will walk the beat and know the neighborhood.

Once they are walking to a steady beat and stopping precisely on the last beat, have children drop the recitation of the rhyme, and just walk the beat.

I know what works: Investing in crime prevention and community police officers who’ll walk the beat, who’ll know the neighborhood, and who can restore trust and safety.

As deputy commissioner of legal matters from September 2014 until his retirement in July 2018, Byrne was at the forefront of policy changes and legal fights that affected everything from how officers walk the beat to the public’s ability to know which ones were punished for misconduct.

Chief David Todd of the Fargo Police Department periodically abandons his desk to walk the beat downtown.