Well in a country farming region like mine I'd rather have police that patrol and are at least 30 minutes away then have it be completely wild west out here. We already have our guns and castle laws, but that doesn't stop there from drug addicts that go up and down the coast stealing cars and breaking in homes. Sure farmers could hire security guards but without a police force that has the legal authority to pursue people beyond property limits and piece together patterns to I don't see what would stop the criminals around here except getting in a shootout with them and winning. I don't want to have to execute a seven samurai script with my various neighbors every time there's a problem of crime waves.

Fines are annoying, but I rarely get any aside from parking tickets (damn fire hydrants), I'd rather know that my taxes go to a uniformly trained security/law enforcement force then have to hire bodyguards everytime I leave my property. Besides speeding (within the liberty limit of 5mph) and parking I obey all the laws and have had nothing but good service from the police, I appreciate their random roadblock/sobriety checks during the holidays and don't really mind the speed limits to much.

I see no advantage to a community of hundreds of small independent farmers having various private security guards instead of a police force, if you can't see the advantage to police in a city either then you seem to have lived a privileged life during which you've never needed them.