dr. richard frisni received injuries after a patient attacked him. >> what would have stopped him from attacking me? more police presence. >> reporter: this is the sally port to the dorms for the more than 1,000 criminally committed where violent patients sleep alongside the violent often assaulted residents. former president wade jr. says he spent much of his life here. he is one of the people who complained about long police response time. >> the police are out there to my right and the sally part is all the way over here to my left. the hospital police take at least three to four minutes to get into the sally port. that needs to change like yesterday. >> reporter: there's a lot of debate over whether any changes the department of health have made in the past month have done any good or are even real. >> we have redirected hospital police officers from current positions such as the visiting center, the mail services and put them in the secure treatment area. >> no the police are not on the unit. the police are outside the fence. they're supposed to keep the violently criminal insane from escap