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Police Presence, Kearney and Sutter
Dirty Harry might be San Francisco's most famous cop but the city's most unusual police pairing is Officers Bob Geary and Brendan O'Smarty. Geary and O'Smarty worked the North Beach district from 1991 until 1993 when the police chief decided that O'Smarty couldn't patrol the beat anymore due to the fact that he was a ventriloquist's dummy. Officer Geary took the issue to the 1993 civic ballot. By a margin of 51 to 49 percent the voters of San Francisco decided that the duo could continue their crime-fighting duties. Today the pair are still working and can be seen cruising in their radio car or walking the North Beach beat.
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