I’d say the city is shaking in its boots. First, you’d have to get some folks to figure out who paid and how much. So figure a team of four folks working for an entire year to settle that part of the problem ($250k minimum for the employes, computers, and phone calls). Then figure you have to pay back out of the city budget....which can’t afford it...so you gotta float a bond here. You can figure that the city cops knew this was illegal and probably brought this up as it was laid out...and the dimwits who run the city likely didn’t grasp simple law or what the cops meant.
“the dimwits who run the city likely didn’t grasp simple law or what the cops meant.”
I suspect they didn’t care. We are fighting that war in my town right now. The City Council has decided that it is completely unnecessary for them to abide by current law.