Quote Originally Posted by HoneyBadger View Post
Sad day for the small town LEOs all over America and a grave reminder to the rest of us: Evil is out there and sometimes it comes looking for you. Keep your head on a swivel and your wits about you.

RIP Officer Cottrell.
I used to work for a smaller jurisdiction that sometimes would make so cover officers weren't available, mainly because of call load. In that same jurisdiction it was frowned upon to wait for cover and you were often on domestics and other serious in nature crimes by yourself for a little while and sometimes the entire call. I cleared a bank by myself once after a bank robbery. Of course the agency wasn't rural and there was no need to act that way. Where I work now there is always tons of cover and you will rarely be by yourself on any type of call. Even on calls that I know can be handled solo another officer will almost always show up very quickly. That being said, I have gotten very used to that and can't imagine working for such a small jurisdiction that every call is handled solo and cover, if needed, could be more than an hour away. That is often the case that my friends have to deal with in the State Patrol.