The Springfield News-Leader from Springfield, Missouri • Page 3

The News-Leader Monday, July 10, 1995 3A Solving Crime perspectives Police offer two solutions: citizens' help, more money What do you think? Solving crime in the Ozarks Investigators across the Ozarks see crime rates taking on big-city overtones. They share the same problem of understating, or say they will soon. Here's how some of them are coping: Ozark The city may get its second full-time detective next year. Bring him on, says Bill McConnelL who became the city's first and only full-time investigator in 1993. He spends up to .50 hours a week on the job.