Rural Law Enforcement
In the Rural Law Enforcement section you’ll find news reports and expert articles about what it means to be a police officer in rural America.
A&E’s “Ozark Law” follows two small Missouri PDs keeping order in vacation hotspots where the population swells from thousands to hundreds of thousands
Sheriff-elect Eric Kirsch is rewriting the playbook for small-town law enforcement with a bold approach and a commitment to community
Officers in the woods, the plains, the mountains and small towns regularly find themselves sorting out the aftermath of ugly stuff that started somewhere else
Small agencies can always benefit from an extra set of eyes – especially when they are in the sky
A 1932 bloodbath at a remote Ozarks farm that resulted in the death of six LEOs still offers tactical lessons for officers today
The article discussed small town PDs in the US and the disastrous response in Uvalde as though they were related
A discussion about the pros and cons of law enforcement adopting a fire service shift model
A champion of rural law enforcement, Dias is working to document violence against LEOs serving in rural and remote locations
“When I talk to our taxpayers, they ask, ‘Why didn’t we do this sooner?’”
By quantifying what is happening in rural places, there can be no excuse for failure to train, equip and staff rural police to modern, professional standards
Wanting equitable wages for rural cops is not about greed or ingratitude, it’s just economics
A deadeye game warden was praised for his unorthodox rescue of a trapped deer
A chief in Washington State thinks so and is encouraging his cops to sleep on the job
Chief Paul Wegner believes it is a viable solution that he’s willing to try in order to save his staff
What rural cops want isn’t complicated or exotic. Over and over survey respondents repeated the same refrains
In order to protect his officers’ mental health, Paynesville Police Chief Paul Wegner is offering the paid leave for officers with at least five years of service
A police union president says the cost of living is far outpacing wages
Authorities have offered a $10,000 award for information leading to an arrest
Following the leak of a draft executive order on police reform, White House advisors are promising more LE collaboration. Let’s hope they talk to rural cops
Shot nine times while patrolling alone in a remote location, Young shares the survival lessons of his brutal attack
A Colorado LEO looks back on the murder of his brother, Corporal Nate Carrigan, who was killed enforcing an eviction order
Rural agencies face complex challenges; here’s a roundup plus some solutions to the problems at hand
Cops spend a lot of time rescuing critters from places they shouldn’t be, and we’re going to look at a few rescues
“We always joked about it,” said coroner Raymond Kern. “Then it happened”
From a lack of protective equipment to being hours from backup, small town cops face many challenges not seen by their urban counterparts
The Illinois State Police has a secret weapon for making country roads safer for drivers
Even the smallest departments can conduct basic crime analysis and evaluation of the impact of police operations
Operation Hammer Strike also resulted in the seizure of nearly 1,335 pounds of processed marijuana, three guns and more than $30,000 in cash
Terrorists need three things to be able to act: intention, capability and opportunity. And those can all be interrupted by vigilant policing
Nearly half of the 36,000 annual traffic fatalities in the U.S. occur on rural roads, even though only a fifth of the population lives in rural areas
A West Virginia county takes a whole-community approach to implementing broadband
To understand the world, we have to look through many different lenses. Here’s a selection to get you thinking
Cheyenne County, Kansas covers over 1,000 square miles and is served by four deputies
