It is also notable for its inhabitants: two policemen who use identical one-bedroom flats in mainland America's first live-in koban, the Japanese for mini-station.
Opened earlier this summer, and modelled on Japan's little local police stations, Columbia's koban is an attempt to prevent crime by tackling some of the things that cause it: broken families, children who stop going to school, the failure of communities to help people at the end of their tether.