The State - News from May 23, 1985

The San Diego County community of Rancho Bernardo is abandoning the idea of a community alert patrol, in which volunteers would drive around as a deterrent to crime, after failing to get the backing of the San Diego Police Department. Don Clark, who headed a committee looking into the idea of a Neighborhood Watch-on-wheels, said the was told by the Police Department that it could not support a “group action” that served only one part of the city. Police Capt. Joe Schwalbach, commanding officer of the department’s Northeastern Station, which serves this community, said the department was concerned about the risk of injury to the volunteers.