There is one resident of the Whiteaker who badgers EPD constantly to get some bike patrols on the bike paths (it's not me, though I agree that it should be patrolled). They usually relent and have a couple per week during the summer. However, they won't deal with drug crimes, drinking and smoking in the park, illegal camps, littering, public defecation or any other "quality of life" crimes that have so devastated our bike paths. They won't even deal with the thugs who block the underpasses all day while they panhandle for booze money in shifts.

Of course this is a management problem, but it's also what happens when 80% of your police force live out of town. It's not their home, so they don't really care if it's a nice place to live or a hell hole.