KOB showed the email to people who live and work downtown. One person, Carla Gabaldon, said those measures are not enough.

"If you see somebody who's intoxicated that's not a felony crime but it can lead more to that, I mean just looking for felony crimes, I mean little things always end up to bigger things," she said.

Another person, Verland Coker, said, "It seems a little bit useless in my opinion because when you have cops out on the street who are simply there almost to intimidate you out of doing a crime without actually following through unless it's a felony. You might have people who are a bit more brazen and can do these misdemeanor crimes and apparently get away scot-free even though there's a cop around."

APD Public Information Officer Fred Duran said there is a reason that enforcement is a last resort.

"Not always taking somebody to jail is going to solve the problem," he said. "If we arrested everybody, that'd be great. They'd be off the streets. But we'd all know they'd be back probably in the next few days doing the same thing over again."

So Duran said officers will be focusing on community policing like offering resources to the homeless and educating them about what's illegal.

"It's two-fold," he said. "We want to make sure we're enforcing laws at the same time but the laws that are going to be life threatening or property threatening like auto theft or somebody getting stabbed or anything like that. We want to make sure we're enforcing that for sure. But jaywalking, throwing stuff on the ground, littering and stuff like that, is it really going to be worth an officers time to spend the time to do that report and take somebody to jail for a lesson they may not learn?"

Duran said officers always have the option to take somebody to jail if they feel it's necessary. Last week, the city said its officers had issued more than 200 verbal warnings since the increased patrols started late last month.

The email does state officers should keep track of all contacts and verbal or written warnings as well as any arrests down here.