lematic areas. Large police departments are described as bureaucratic and structured with a large social distance between the supervisors and the subordinates which contributes negatively to the relationships and to accountability. Effective links to and from the community also tend to be less in large departments. Alternatively, more participation between leadership and workers is shown to result in greater worker satisfaction. On the other hand, the smaller police department faces the stress of insufficient manpower, but tends to have more support from leaders and greater connections to community members (Brooks & Piquero, 1998).
Brooks and Piquero (1998) studied the size of police departments and related stress levels and found that while size was a contributor to conditions, it
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