Why does a town of 50,000 have a five man goon squad hanging out in theater parking lots?
Over staffed and bored law enforcement start trouble where none exists.
You want to talk about “overstaffed”?
The municipality next to where I live had, on a public trail: two cops on bikes on the trail, two cruisers at a road where the trail crosses, and 4 cops on foot stopping folks and handing out $138. fines to every cyclist not wearing helmets!
There are only 100K folks paying the salaries of the above mentioned cops, at $80K + per year each.
If we have so little actual crime that we have manpower enough for such petty enforcement of a ludicrous “law”, we have FAR and away too many thugs with badges on the street.