True but again, they can easily contract out with the county. It is a fairly sparsely populated county and according to policescorecard.org, they have 2.3 officers per 1000 people which is better than 73% of departments.

The town I grew up in has about 2500 people and has not had a police department since the 90s. The last Republican candidate for governor here in Washington was police chief of a town of 1000 people and the town decided it made no sense to even have a department so they ended it while he ran which he did not expect. Both towns are still doing perfectly fine.