In parts of the US from Colorado, remote areas of Texas up to Montana and Idaho, huge swaithes of Canada, the Northern Territories, Alaska, Scotland, Scots isles the police presence if often many hour or days away and often only if the weather will let the cops fly or boat in, but those remote communities maintain civilised behaviour and rule of law. And is no coincidence that in many places the public faith in the law is in terminal decline, they see the police as agents of the state rather than keepers of the peace. or worse utterly inept and incompetant and not to be trusted or contacted.
EG
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