Anthony, your examples of the steps your city’s police department have taken and the idea that it should be easily applied to homeland security makes complete sense. I fear that one of the issues that prohibits successful communication and trust between a police department and its’ citizens, is the size of the department and the city or county that they serve. I currently work in a city of approximately 55,000 people and I’d say for the most part, the citizens are very trusting of our department and our officer’s. That is to say, our citizens have a high opinion of our departmental operations. However, in contrast, we border a city of over 600,000 citizens and the trust and communication between that department and their citizens is strained
