Writing help on setting

[Jo]

I don't really know where to place this in so yeah sorry about that.

Okay, so I'm writing urban fantasy short stories. At the beginning I never imagined the police force of the small town it's set in to become so important, and now they've become major characters.

Here's the problem. How do I get facts on how an American small town police station is run? I'm not American and I don't live in a small town (even if I did, 'small town' here is almost ghost town to you). How do I find the sources to continue?

[Kendra]

Now that you've made the topic...

How do I make setting flow in my work? It's always a disjointed description whenever I bother to try.

[Jo]

That's easy. Avoiding inner description as much as you can. When you express your character's feelings through his actions instead of using "internal" verbs like thought, remembered, believed, hated and the like you get more interaction from the character.

[Isaac]

Well you're in luck because I live in a small American town. Do you need to know how the police interact with citizens or how the station is run itself?

[Taylor]

Google knows. :D