Bella Vista had a community policing approach before it was a popular catchphrase. In Wozniak’s words ‘did it because we were small and needed to be out amongst the public and let them know who the [the police] were and what [we] did.” [01:32:24]
#1: Chief Jim Wozniak standing with the new style police car then used by the Bella Vista Police Department in Bella Vista, Arkansas, September 2009
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#2: Jim Wozniak on his first day as a patrolman of the Menomonie Police Department, taken at his parents house in West Allis, Wisconsin; December 25, 1971
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#3: Jim Wozniak as a Menomonie Police Department lieutenant at age 24, 1973
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#4: Jim Wozniak wearing the new insignia of rank of major of the Bella Vista Division of the Benton County Sheriff's office, December 25, 2005
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