S.F. wants cops on the street. SFPD only staffs 1/3 of its foot beats.

Boots on the ground are in demand.

In community meetings and public surveys, San Franciscans repeatedly say they want to see more officers walking their neighborhoods.

Over the years, the San Francisco Police Department has imagined a map of 52 foot beats, each covering a discrete part of the city. They may be a few blocks of a busy business corridor, like Clement Street in the Richmond. Or they may be geographic areas, like the plaza in front of City Hall.

But you likely won’t see officers in most of these designated locations across the city. As of September, SFPD was staffing less than a third of its foot beats — just 16 of 52, according to a public records request by Mission Local .

Foot beats remain popular

At neighborhood meetings to discuss the selection of SFPD’s next police