For example, when we would sometimes get a string of burglaries and solve one or two, the rest would kind of fall into place. When reports were needed to follow leads, they were there. In some counties the patrol doesn't talk to the sheriff and the sheriff doesn't talk to the game wardens and the city police don't work with others. They are wasting time. A brotherhood is formed and that is important too.
Citizens help also.
I don't have a scanner in the house anymore but for many years I did. Itasca County is loaded with scanners. I still get a few calls asking where so and so lives and I can often help. Itasca County is a good county to work in. I enjoy this county.