Every approach to government programs gets tweaked from time to time. Police work is no different.
Long before Ferguson and all the police/citizen confrontations that have followed, several departments instituted "community policing."
To better understand what that means, we assembled a panel consisting of Lane County Sheriff Byron Trapp, Eureka Police Captain Brian Stephens, and Ashland PoliceChief Tighe O'Meara (there may be others). We get a sense of the current approaches of each department, and the unique challenges in policing each of the communities they serve.
