My township is around 1,200 and we have three full time with three reserve in case something very bad should happen.
Down the road is a town of about 2500 and they have five full time with three reserve.
Occasionally you have a violent crime, an armed robbery, a rape or murder but that is something that happens maybe once a year if that. 54% of the counties in the US had no murders at all in the past year.
Baltimore is probably more dangerous than Afghanistan at this time.
I think it would be great to live in a small town. I learned something about small town policing. Thank you.