14 Am. J. Police 123 (1995)
The County Sheriff as a Distinctive Policing Modality

handle is hein.journals/ajpol14 and id is 467 raw text is: American Journal of Police, Vol. XII, No. 3/4 1995 THE COUNTY SHERIFF AS A DISTINCTIVE POLICING MODALITY David N. Falcone L. Edward Wells Illinois State University INTRODUCTION In many ways, discussion of policing is generally approached as all of one cloth, despite significant variations in the types and locations of agencies where it is carried out. Distinctions are sometimes noted between public and private policing, and between federal, state and local policing. However, a general proposition seems to be that: at its core, policing is policing, in whatever agency or location it exists; and the prototype for this activity is the modern city police department. James Q. Wilson's (1968) typology of police departments is well known, but deals entirely with variations among urban municipal police agencies. A perusal of contemporary textbooks on policing (e.g. Berg, 1992; Roberg and Kuykendall, 1990; Schultz and Beckman, 1992; Walker, 1992) documents the ubiquitous presence of the urban municipal policing orientation.' It seems that little systematic attention, in either scholarly research or textbooks, has been given to the difference between county and municipal modes of policing. Rather, the central tendency is to consider policing types largely as variations on the same basic process (urban municipal policing), only incidentally noting the variations in other settings and contexts.

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