That depends on where you live and who you have to deal with.
I work in the country for the most part. Not many people run in the country; where are they gonna run to? If they do, I have a car. Why run if you can ride
If a country boy is gonna run off into the back 40 of his AO where you can't drive, good luck finding him unless you know the area as well as he does. Get a warrant and pick him up later.
Half of fights are caused by a couple of things. Ego, booze, testesterone, you call it what you will.
Then you have your regulars. people you deal with throughout your whole career. Mistreat them, they'll remember and resent it the rest of your career and make every interaction you have that much harder. Treat them right and they remember that and life is much easier every single time you interact with each other. I've seen people fight just because the officer they're dealing with had a negative interaction with them years before, and they've never gotten over it in their minds..
Figure out how to deal with those issues, deflate the problem, and you find yourself having to fight a whole lot less. My shift calls me Dr Phil because I like to talk longer than they do. They're also half my age and most have only been working 3-4 years, since we've had a huge generational shift in our employees as people retired or were driven out by our last CLEO over the past decade
For the remainder of the people we deal with who wont play nice, if asking doesn't work you transition to telling and making. Their choice which way its going to happen. Its a whole lot easier to use the modern tools like tasers that we have now than to go hands on with someone. much smaller chance of anyone getting hurt. I know I don't heal up as fast as I used to. I didn't heal up 100% after the last EDP I had to drag back from killing herself. I'm much more mindful of my aches and pains these days than I was earlier in my career.