I have been thinking about your response when you posted even if a young woman was being gang raped or an elderly man was being beaten and robbed, you would not call 911. How do you get teachers to come into the schools? And merchants to open stores. Or visiting nurses to come help the sick? Or physician offices to open in the neighborhood?
I can can imagine with the scenario you have painted the police force is not going to send in Mayberry RFD when their is a problem. They would be eaten alive in five minutes.