You gotta put on a good show for the "tough on crime" crowd plus how do you expect them to justify funding if they aren't geared up like they are staging a raid

You gotta put on a good show for the "tough on crime" crowd plus how do you expect them to justify funding if they aren't geared up like they are staging a raid on a terrorist stronghold to arrest some 20 year old for a couple of grams of meth (or someone growing okra¹)? They are fighting the ”War on Drugs" after all.² [1]: https://time.com/3479728/marijuana-okra-police/ https://time.com/3479728/marijuana-okra-police/ [2]: I say this with as much sarcasm as I can currently muster