Where I live it’s like forty-five minutes and that’s if they’re not busy. The sheriff said basically: arm up.
Pretty much my situation. My mother in law is a close neighbor and the nearest is several miles away. I call her the mayor of my neighborhood and she calls me the police chief.
She has been out of town before and her alarm system go off and my and my son get up at 3:00am and arm up and go clear the house and find it is a weak battery on a motion senor and as we are leaving and locking things back up the sheriff sometimes arrives(its happened a couple of times) and we tell him it’s clear, bad battery or we call the sheriff department and tell them we have cleared it, bad battery to hear oh, well the deputy is still 30 minutes away. Cancel it and if you get same call the rest of the night ignore it. They know we are her only neighbors.
If a strange vehicle pulls on our mountain top they are confronted and asked who they are looking for and why they are up here since it is posted no trespassing. Usually lost but at times you can tell they are up to no good. We are armed every time we check on someone. Last New Years the neighboring national park was closed for the shut down and had left all their gates to picnic areas open for use. It was dark and my wife and I had just left for a bite to eat and we went one way towards town but ended up turning around and saw a vehicle making it’s way up our road. We turned in and followed and blocked in a woman who was looking for the picnic area on a freezing, rainy night and it pitch dark. She was told this is not the park, we check everyone who wonders up here. She stuttered and carried on quite a bit not making a coherent sentence. She finally left and we followed her into the park and she turned into a dark picnic area. She was either screwing around or looking for a drug score in the park if her story was true, which we didn’t buy. You have to make an effort to get to our place. We are on our own for at least 30 minutes if it hits the fan and we arm up.