A LEO working a small county/town works on officer safety less because he/she does not have the regular opportunity to work on it more, the need simply does not exist. Contrast that to someone who works in a very urban setting which has more homicides in a weekend most towns in the US do in the course of a year or three.
New officers do not come out of the academy ready to be elite officers. You learn it, after failing a hundred times over and hopefully not getting yourself or others killed in the process.
I fear for the officer who thinks officer safety is not something important or something that needs to be mitigated at times, talk about not accurately understanding the issue.
As nobody has said anything about officers not thinking officer safety is important or needs to be mitigated at times, I'm not sure what your point is.
"PLAN FOR YOUR TRAINING TO BE A REFLECTION OF REAL LIFE INSTEAD OF HOPING THAT REAL LIFE WILL BE A REFLECTION OF YOUR TRAINING!"