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My small town tried to do this several years ago. They wanted to outsource police to a nearby town. The residents shot it down massively. At the time, our police chief was an older man who would actually do concealed carry classes for free for residents, because he strongly felt the citizens were his ultimate back-stop.

Police tend to strongly take their cues from the top down, and you really could see it daily in how officers interacted with citizens. Sadly, he has retired since then, but he was a great chief, because he really did see himself and his officers as servants of the people, and that the citizens of the town were partnered with him and his crew. Andy Griffith really did exist in this former Republic.