Alan Byard has been patrolling San Francisco for more than four decades and is the city’s last Patrol Special Police Officer, a Gold Rush-era private police program meant to replace security guards.

He and his Ford Crown Victoria are the remaining symbols of community policing and possible solutions to the city's surging crime rates.

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