If less than .5% of the families you raid have the ability to defend themselves via lawyers and PR [as is the case in the OP], literally only one family in 200+ was able to and willing to do so....there won&#x27;t be any consequences.<p>The OP basically has emails&#x2F;internal communication basically stating they want drug users to &quot;fear&quot; 4&#x2F;20 in their communities.<p>It is a campaign of terror.<p>&gt; Thanks again to all of you who worked on this. I think for a first time even this was absolutely an outstanding success. The media coverage was 99% positive on this which is pretty darn good as well. We’ve had a lot of suggestions for this operation next year, such as having a telethon type billboard with a large green marijuana plant filling up as the pledges come in, making T-Shirts and whatnot. One agency had the observation that if this continues for a couple years 4&#x2F;20 will be something to fear rather than something to celebrate.<p>&gt; The press release sent out the morning of April 20 announced that police would be targeting 375 houses across both Kansas and Missouri. But Wingo later reported that police found just 52 marijuana grows. That’s better than single digit number of grows found in 2012. But it also means that more than 300 households were wrongly targeted.<p>Notice how, of the 300+ people wrongly targeted, no one complained in a substantial way?<p>The police, quite literally, are used to suffering no consequences for ridiculous rates of error.<p>Similarly, every single time they make an arrest its noted as a positive performance of their job duties. Its simple incentives built into the way the officers are reviewed like that that drive this. [e.g. If you view your job is to make arrests, you make arrests.]