I don’t feel like that’s a bad thing. Way more non deadly police are a good thing in my opinion.

Seriously I'd rather have a 10x increase in police if it meant no firearms.

No idea, but if anything my impression would be the opposite.

I know from a police officer friend of mine that on badly-staffed nights, Oxford (an affluent city of about 180k people) only had 2-4 officers on call. For anything from a bar fight to murder. You don’t get these American-style 10 police car buildups, unless it is literally a national emergency.