Citation

Weisheit RA, Wells LE, Falcone DN. Crime Delinq. 1994; 40(4): 549-567.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0011128794040004005

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Community policing has become a popular approach. Discussions of community policing have focused on urban and suburban departments, generally ignoring rural and small town police organizations. Ironically, many of these departments have a history of practices that correspond directly to the principles of community policing. For example, officers in these agencies typically know the citizens personally, have frequent face-to-face contact with them, and engage in a variety of problem-solving activities that fall outside of law enforcement. In neglecting small town and rural police, researchers have denied themselves an important natural laboratory for studying community policing.

Language: en