SMALL & RURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE NEWS

  1. Rig life: What rural cops carry by Kathleen Dias
  2. Most police departments in America are small. That’s partly why changing policing is difficult
  3. How the data disproves the myth of Mayberry
  4. Learning from deadly LE encounters in rural America
  5. Under-resourced and understaffed: How small LE agencies address mental health outreach.
  6. Sheriff to Minnesota lawmakers: Rural police see different challenges than metro
  7. Addressing Four OSW Pillars in Smaller and Rural Communities
  8. Molitor chairs new association
  9. Petersburg Sheriff Vanessa Crawford advocates for the nation’s small law enforcement agencies
  10. Giving a voice to the silent majority: Rural police leaders share challenges ahead
  11. Rural police struggle to recruit amid poor pay and public perception
  12. Why even the smallest agency needs a critical incident response plan
  13. The risks rural officers face from COVID-19
  14. A revival for the Navajo Nation’s police force
  15. DOJ announces 2 new reports focused on helping rural law enforcement
  16. Maine sheriffs working to improve transparency and outreach
  17. Why de-escalation is a rural cop’s lifeline
  18. From Mayberry to Wind River: Rural cops on the big and small screen
  19. Safety and wellness threats are different for rural officers
  20. 3 things cops learn at rural agencies
  21. Why rural officers need workplace protections
  22. Rural South Carolina elects first Black sheriff
  23. Rural Georgia elects first female Black Sheriff
  24. President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice
  25. Rural Law Enforcement Struggle
  26. Mayberry, it Isn’t
  27. Alaska 
  28. Partnering to Improve Health if Rural Communities
  29. Why rural agencies face the most challenges from police reform
  30. Women in rural law enforcement
  31. Why officers’ lives depend on dispelling the cliché that ‘nothing ever happens in small towns
  32. Learning from deadly LE encounters in rural America
  33. Community policing in small-town rural America
  34. Rural recordings
  35. Overcoming obstacles to rural recruiting
  36. How the right hiring process can solve some of the recruitment problems facing small PDs
  37. The challenge of hiring and keeping officers in small and rural agencies
  38. ‘It does happen here!’: Why rural cops need tac-med training, equipment