Kristen McGlothlin is a sergeant serving the city of Bradford in White County, Arkansas. Bradford fields one of the smallest municipal police forces in the state — two to three sworn officers for a city of roughly 680 residents. In an agency that size, there are no specialized assignments. Officers handle the full range of duties themselves: patrol and traffic enforcement, calls for service, initial response and investigation, and intake at the city jail, with mutual aid from the White County Sheriff’s Office and neighboring departments when a situation outgrows a single unit.
Beyond her patrol work, McGlothlin has built a substantial public-facing presence as a digital creator, with roughly 41,000 to 46,000 followers on Facebook alone. Her content centers on the everyday realities and humor of rural policing, posted under tags including #SmallTownCop and #CopTok, and blends job-related material with faith and family themes.
That combination has made her one of the more visible figures in Arkansas small-agency law enforcement. Departments the size of Bradford’s almost never generate coverage outside of incident reporting, and her accounts offer a sustained, first-person look at a side of the profession that rarely reaches a wider audience.
Sergeant McGlothlin was first featured with On Patrol: Live during Season 5 in episode 09.18.26.
