{"id":8491,"date":"2024-09-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:49:52","slug":"small-town-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/small-town-police\/","title":{"rendered":"SMALL TOWN POLICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently watched this documentary on small-town policing. They got a lot of things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Small Town Cops\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6J8n_WeThw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Or watch<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p6J8n_WeThw?si=5_ipiA3op6kVAtrq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Having been a small town cop, I can tell you that while the action is not as constant and exciting as big city law enforcement, it is in some ways more satisfying. You see the people you helped later, and they generally express their appreciation, and that\u2019s a satisfaction that\u2019s missing for a lot of big city cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the public waves at you, they use all their fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get to know the people you serve \u2013 and they get to know and trust you, in turn. You get more information tips from them then you might in the anonymity of a metropolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched this documentary on small-town policing. They got a lot of things right. Having been a small town cop, I can tell you that while the action is not as constant and exciting as big city law enforcement, it is in some ways more satisfying. You see the people you helped later, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}