Speaking as the greenest of the green know-nothings, ever since the Adam-12 days, whenever I've seen a lone office in a car, I think: "Why?" I guess "numbers" dictate - IOW, the simple majority of calls are easily handled by one officer - is that it? But, what about the rest of the calls? We all know even a great response time is still too long for a lone officer in a "situation." When you mix in all the sidewalk movie directors/bg cheerleaders with their phones/cameras, grinding away, pushing a response into something it would have never been without their intervention, that lone officer is doomed. Only if he is able to dominate and secure the scene asap, will he succeed. I will never understand why the American people now think LEO are the bad guys and that they never need any help.