Urban Policing Summary

I find this article very interesting as it focuses on two concepts of policing, which are small town policing and urban policing. This article will examine how urban policing can benefit from small town and rural policing as results will show how it seems to be more effective in everyday policing activities. The point of this article is to advocate that the small town-policing model should be the ideal one used by most police organizations across the U.S.
It is no secret that the criminal-justice system has been studied more in large-urban areas than small-town and rural locales. In this article the author wants to discuss why the small-town police department should be used as a distinctive model within the mosaic of US police organizations. Police officers working under urban and big city agencies are directly responsible to their parent agency and then indirectly to the state or federal government, rather than the local community. The difference with small town police officers is that they are integrated in to the community, while most of them are residents whereas urban police departments recruit officers outside of the community. Being that most of these agencies are organizationally “of the community,” they do not necessarily represent community interests. …show more content…
is made up of small town and rural police departments. The small town police departments have not been properly represented or proportionately shown in the body of literature that is U.S. policing. The result of this common notion, has made big city and urban policing dominant bias of how policing in the U.S. is conducted. The absence of small town policing theories has led to some problems in perception of how all policing is performed. The public is made to believe that most policing is the same in form, function, and content wherever it is found leading to a one-size-fits-all approach to policing across the