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BY PEKAY PETTUS
PATROLLING the highways of Rappahannock County is quite a change after patrolling the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City, Jonathan Watson of Flint Hill soon learned. A year after leaving the police force of one of the world’s largest cities to become a State Trooper in the Virginia countryside, Jonathan Watson is convinced he made the right decision, personally and professionally.
He has been on the job in Rappahannock since last May, and Watson has reached some conclusions about the differences between an urban and a rural way of life and how those differences affect the law enforcement office’s job. Neither he nor his wife Dianne regret leaving New York, the only place either of them had ever lived, to move with their two children to Flint Hill.
Jonathan Watson was one of 225 policemen assigned to New York’s 83rd precinct, which covers less than two square miles and contains more than 150,000 people. Now he is one of three Virginia State Troopers assigned to Rappahannock County, which has 264 square miles and less than 6,000 people.
As a New York city policeman, Watson was on duty during the student demonstrations at Columbia University and the riots that followed the shooting of Martin Luther King. Working in a precinct with a large population of
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