And the police chief sent detectives in an unmarked car why?
(Free disclosure, I have been an opponent of unmarked cars for thirty five years. I believe that the public is best served by the old black and white recognizable patterns and that each state should standardize such a pattern)
Unmarked cars, and no-knock raids (for anything other than hostage rescue) have done as much damage to people’s respect for honest authority than all the depredations of liberals in the past 50 years.