How about doing your own digging before accusing meth lab. Odds, especially in a state having pseudoephedrine restrictions (not to be confused with pseudo-cerebral restrictions, as would apply to you) favor a stash of something like ecstasy or marijuana.
But to get back to the basics, there need to be CONSEQUENCES. You know jolly well this will be at worst a rejiggering of city finances. The occifers will what, be demoted to a life of being private security guards, a sinecure in most cases. (They cannot be outsourced to India.)
No, and neither do you. The article said nothing at all about meth. Where do you get that from the article? Could have been pot, could have been someone with a stolen prescription pad that was happily dolling out quantities of Oxycontin.
We all know that when you make an assumption, you just make an as* out of u and mption. But since you seem to be so keen to make the assumptions, lets continue with them. Yes, the druggies were running a meth lab. The smell was bad. Really bad. So bad in fact that the neighbors called the cops to report the drug lab running next door.
The cops come to the scene, but they are all GED recipients, and instead of busting down the door of the house with the funky smell coming from it, they bust down the door of the people who called in to report it. Some thanks that is for being a good upstanding citizen!