Community Policing in a Rural Setting

Quint Thurman, Edmund F. McGarrell

• Section I: The Challenges of Community Policing in Rural and Small-Town America 1. Community Policing in a Rural Setting: An Introduction 2. Operationalizing Community Policing in Rural America: Sense and Nonsense 3. The State of Community Policing in Small Towns and Rural Areas 4. Facilitators and Obstacles to Community Policing in Rural America Section II: Organizational Change and Community Policing 5. Assessing the Need for Organizational Change in Rural American Police Agencies 6. The Work Routines and Citizen Interactions of Small-Town and Rural Police Officers 7. Celebrating Agency Culture: Engaging a Traditional Cop’s Heart in Organizational Change 8. Getting to Know Your Employees Better 9. Linking the Right Person to the Right Job: Selecting, Training, and Retaining Officers to Do Community Policing Section III: The Community Role in Community Policing 10. The Police and Community Organizing 11. The Benefits of Community Policing in Rural Oklahoma 12. Getting to Know Your Community Through Citizen Surveys and Focus Group Interviews 13. Problem-Solving Auto Theft in Unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida 14. Innovative Community Crime Prevention: An Overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-AmeriCorps Program Section IV: Rural Community Policing and the Future 15. Future Challenges: The Urbanization of Rural America Appendix A: Police Department Employee Survey Instrument Appendix B: Police Department Employee Focus Group Questionnaire Appendix C: Community Survey Instrument Appendix D: Community Focus Group Questionnaire