TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - Community Policing in Small Town and Rural America
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Weisheit, R. A.
A1  - Wells, L. Edward
A1  - Falcone, David N.
SP  - 549
EP  - 567
VL  - 40
IS  - 4
N2  - 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.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128794040004005
ID  - ref1
ER  -