Small town – big problems

Police Officers walk, drive and bike to protect our community without knowing what’s around the corner up ahead – Literally and figuratively. There may be more corners – and more troubles – in an inner city, loaded with gang violence and ethnic tension, but small town cops have their own array of problems that get overlooked by citizens across the country. A lot of danger lurks in the cornfields at night around small towns that are pit stops for the goods of commerce- and crime – that travels down the concrete arteries of our nations to the cities.

Small town like Cannon Falls can be extremely volatile. Highway 52 connects the town with metropoles like the Twin Cities, Rochester, and even Chicago. Locations right off of this main highway are ideal spots for drug dealers to transfer supplies from one vehicle to another or to meet buyers. As a sophomore I was coming home from a party and there was a drug bust right in the center of downtown Cannon Falls with at least twenty solid white blocks of cocaine. This is a problem that all offices have to face coming from small towns, because crime doesn’t just stop at a city’s borders.