They don't come across the bridge unless they want to beat the HP to it or someone is dead.

Two state troopers M-F. Weekends is whoever from the State Trooper barracks over 30 min away.

ETA: Neighbor's front door sitting wide open with a car in the driveway. I called into the house with no answer. Called the Staties. 1 1/2 hour response time. Dispatched as a loose dog. I did mention the dog, but it wasn't why I called.

Shoot.
Shovel.
Shhhh.

About four municipal cops and two deputies for a county the size of Connecticut. DPS seems to be present for a couple of days at a time but they mainly have their hands full dealing with I-10.

Response time around here for an in progress violent call is likely 1-2 minutes inside city limits, and anywhere from 5-30 minutes in unincorporated areas. I'd say countywide across all agencies at any given time there's probably 1 LEO on duty for 500 residents.

The downside of being out in the country is that if help is needed, it ain't getting there fast. I've opted to call neighbors rather than 911 before, in emergent situations, precisely because I know exactly how long it will take for Fire/EMS/LE to arrive.

Our county is bigger than New Jersey in terms of area.

It's broken up into several commands, but after midnight I don't think there's more than 8 deputies active
(the towns have their own PD, but some use the sheriff for dispatch.) I listen to the scanner often and it's
pretty dead outside of the towns most of the time.

In my immediate area, I'm pretty far in the boonies. Unless they're by chance nearby, response time is going to be
40-45 minutes. At my cabin (same county) the response time is 90 minutes to two hours. Both assume there's no
other priority calls happening. There's several highways with state troopers but I doubt there's more than a couple
active during the day and one at best at night.

Rural, and pretty much on our own here at night. Not too far from the county line, so I'd probably be more likely to get a deputy from an adjacent county or a game warden if I really needed somebody at night. Like the rest of Texas, a lot of our state troopers are doing duty at the border, so the rest of them are spread pretty thin. It is what it is. As long as you know that nobody is coming to help you, just make do and never call anything in, ya know?

The sheriff's office has seven employees including the jailers.

Semi rural outside a small town. The PSP will appear out of the woodwork fast. Small town police and PSP back each other up, response time for area us pretty impressive really. Aside from that, if I have clothes on, I have a weapon on.

Your state police do not know how to do multiple shifts? Here in MA a trooper will work 8am to 4pm. Another guy will replace him and work 4pm to midnight. A third guy comes on and works midnight to 8am.

No idea how many on duty really. 95% of the population for the county is in a small town on the other side of the county. Wiki says 6 people per square mile for the county. It's rare I see a deputy. The city police takes care of the city but I haven't been there in decades, assume they have lots of problems from the make up of the city.

Someone robbed the bank in the closest town of 225 a few decades ago. Cops found them on the side of the road when they ran out of gas before they could get to the next town to buy gas. I will sometimes see a forest service enforcement officer since the national forest is my neighbor, same for a game warden.

Maybe your state troopers aren't assigned to the southern border like a lot of ours are? Why don't you send us some to help out?

We hire the sheriff to be present and do speed traps Friday and Saturday nights. That's it. Other than that the sheriff and troopers are stationed about thirty minutes away.

WTF does your location have to do with 24 hour coverage? Does the clock spin differently down there?

LOL. Okay Massachusetts.

2 in the entire county. SHP is also 2 for the entire county.

Theres no point in even trying to to call them out here.

Yeah, that edumacation be a real bitch.

i'm on a county line and the town line, so they don't come here much.


motherfuckers also plow my neighborhood last too.

Escambia ('Escammie') County Florida. When I first got here about 15 years ago, I thought there was a 1/1 cop-citizen ratio. I had come from rural counties in Texas and Oklahoma where it was rare to see a cop in my AO. I went to the beach one day and tons of cops were cloistered around the eatery places. Asked someone what was going on and they said nothing was, it's always like this.

Rural PA, no cops. Call 911 it's a crapshoot, if PSP is close or not. Trooper barracks about 10 miles up the road.

Fine by me, I have no use for them.

Based on the last interaction I had with the Staties who are our police coverage, they would be more apt to arrest me over a perp.
I failed at the Arf saying, " Don't let the man into your life".
I learned my lesson. I look out for myself now.

That’s right keep everything a secret .  The public , the taxpayers , the people have no right to know any government information !
So sit down and shut up .

Don't know, don't care. I don't rely on strangers to help me.

Haha. I don’t live in the sticks. I’m NW Crook Country. My town of 70K has its own plentiful cops plus we have the Crook County Sheriff’s Department patrolling unincorporated areas. State Police on the freeway.

I live in PA where sheriffs are "officers of the court" and not "law enforcement". So that leaves me with "Josh Shapiro's Praetorian Guard (a.k.a. State Police)". The local sheriff is a damn good guy, I voted for him, but aside from issuing concealed weapons permits and having jurisdiction on Army Corp of Engineer's land he basically does nothing. He runs a miniscule jail (most inmates are taken to a different county) and that's it.

Moderately fast I would assume.   Far burbs of Chicago.

Don't drive drunk, use a handheld cellphone, drive like an asshole, speed in school zones, sell drugs, or stab/shoot anyone and you'll likely never encounter a cop around here.

Kharn

Local police department is pretty large for a smaller municipality. I'd expect a fairly quick response, any time of the day or night.
Nearest firehouse is about a quarter of mile away. Had to call them once, and they were here in no time.

When seconds count, cops are only minutes away.

Lots. They're mostly concerned with speeding tickets and traffic violations, though.

Police staffing is largely based on population, not square mileage; though in rural areas, there may be more police than necessary, simply because of the distances traveled.

The radio is the best police weapon- being able to call on other LEOs is their No. 1 advantage.

Police don't interact much with normies and squares- it may be a good thing you don't see them often.

County has a couple guys to cover a large area. City doesn’t have anyone outside of 8-5ish. 4 LEOs in our neighborhood outside of town.

Someone usually drives by every couple hours.

The fewer the better. I'm in the states largest county. When there is a problem, they all respond cause they're bored. Like 7 units for a suspected drunk driver in the middle of nowhere. No I wasn't the suspect.

Rural SWOK here, county is 1300 sq miles.  There is no LEO presence to speak of and I am fine with that.  Our county sheriff's son is a convicted pedo who was also a cop.
The nearest town of 650 people has no police, the next town has maybe 4-5 officers, they make $12 an hour and do nothing except sit at the four way stop running radar.

People take care of their own problems around here and that's the way it should be.  We have a VFD and a company contracted for EMS, those are the only two first responder agencies I care about.

The sheriff's office is maybe a five minute drive from here. Volunteer firefighters are also about five minutes away. People on the other side of the county can have some pretty long response times I imagine.

Similar where I work.

Home gas a municipal dept, I guess 4 per shift?


Yeah they were everywhere when I lived in Philly.  And I still got mugged

We have a fairly large pd for a town of 8k.Gotta be close to dozen  cops. But we have a half dozen counties that live in town and a few staties too. Countwide , i dont see alot of LEO.

Sticks, 12 miles out of a town of 10k. That town is 2 hours from a town of 60k. I have a neighbor deputy about a half mile up the road. He drives up and down our country road a few times a day. That would be the extent of local law enforcement. Town has a handful of city cops. Not many.

Cant throw a tennis ball here without hitting an LEO/LEA.

At night, 2 for a county of 84k, with 3 PDs (Broken Arrow being the largest, in which only a portion is in the county). Should have about 6 Deputies, but no one wants to work there, so its perpetually shorthanded.

Municipal cops, Guardia Nacional, Military, various Federales, These guys all roll HEAVY.

Here in South Chandler, we live in a very low crime area to the point that the local substation about a mile away essentially has closed. Guys go there to do paperwork and stuff but there’s no public presence as I found out recently when I dropped by. But on average, they only get two or three calls for service a shift anyway so it makes sense.

When I was a police officer back in the south, our county only had two deputies on at any given time and usually only one state trooper maybe two on a busy day so we always backed them up whenever we heard them go out on something since help was a good 45 minutes away from their own agency.

Anything that will generate revenue for the town , city , county , and/or state .

Local in town: decent ... Know a couple first hand (and one before he got his badge)

They look at everything going on in murderapolis and shake their heads.

I don't see that they are over worked or under staffed


Local at the cabin: pretty good
Sheriff is solid, but kinda goofy
Deputies that I know and have met are pretty good as well.

Partied with a few. Saw one at a long range black powder match a while back and he is the type if guy you want to be there if shit goes sideways.


None of them are fuckwads from the crazy shit that passes for LEOs around st paul and mpls

"I will take lower pay for better quality of life, better neighbors, and friends who won't stab you in the back"

Seemingly very, very low and I prefer that. Don't care to have a bunch of them around anyway but that's just me

My township has a joint police force of 4 officers with the next township over. Approximately 68 square miles and 3000 people between both townships.
I lived in my current house for over a year before I had seen a police officer in the wild.

It used to be great police presence and patrol where I live, a lower income, working class neighborhood. Response time was just a few minutes. Majority of the criminals were caught. Overall good safety. Kids were roaming the streets having fun. Safe for young ladies to walk around.
After the criminal take over of the government positions: There's hardly and police presence or patrols. Response time is hours. Lots of druggies roaming the streets. Cars blasting that evil noise called rap and smoking drugs openly. Lots of car and house break-ins. Lots of robberies and assaults. Not many arrests.

I thwarted a possible home invasion two months ago.
After midnight while I was asleep I heard my dogs running out, barking aggressively. I looked out the window and saw a young (gangster looking) female standing on my table on the porch, and my dogs barking non-stop at her by the table. I checked the back yard and all other corners of the front yard through the windows and saw nobody else, but there was a car parked outside with 3 shady characters in it looking at my house. I let the intruder have it with for a good 10 minutes pinned by my drooling, barking large dogs, waiting for the "catch" command. Then I opened the door with a powerful flashlight on her face, and the intruder said she's got the wrong house and that she was looking for her friend "Lucy."  I told her "you're damn right you got the wrong house." Of course I had my gun in my hand hiding it behind my back. I only cracked the door open, I was worried about the rest of the gang jumping in, they figured the odds are against them.  Then I called off my very well trained pack of dogs, and watched her leave, still shaking in fear.
All of it recorded by 3 different cameras, shared with the local PD. Technically there was no crime committed, mainly because I was/am ready to face the criminals.
I'm pretty sure the plot was for the girl to get me to open the door, and then the 3 guys would join in.

Folks, NEVER open the door for somebody you don't know. Get full lighting around the house, all angles covered by multiple cameras, and large dogs. On top of being armed at all times.
Better to deter the criminals than to shoot them, those scumbags are not worth the time spent for the paperwork explaining why you had to shoot them.