For me it depends greatly on the department/agency. If I am around Palo Alto or Mountain View or Bellevue or Redmond or WA State Patrol or CHP, I feel safer (u

For me it depends greatly on the department/agency. If I am around Palo Alto or Mountain View or Bellevue or Redmond or WA State Patrol or CHP, I feel safer (unless they are there due to some specific situation, in which case my goal is to get out of the area, but I’d still want them there.). There are a lot of departments where enough (10%?) of the officers are incompetent or malicious, so I’d rarely want them to be around.