David Cohen July 20, 1979 In the summer of 1979, Ocean Beach merchants were fed up with drug activity and wanted the San Diego Police Department to send in foot patrols. One man called the beach and the parking lot a 24-hour drug store. Merchants felt that foot patrols would be a steady deterrent to illegal activity, but police said that was too costly. They did ramp up vehicle patrols and said there would be more patrols the following year.

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