[AAABEST]

the parking lot, a half-dozen men and a woman approached her car, flashing some kind of badges. One jumped on the hood. Another drew a gun.

WTF are SEVEN armed cops doing at a shopping center waiting to rain down on little girls?

I guess this municipality is rich and all the bad guys are off the streets.

[BatGuano]

Rain, reign or rein? Still, your question is valid. Unless the selling of beer to minors is a huge problem, seven is overkill. Wait for the real threat, the training of a special police force, Homeland Security Police, is happening now. They are trained as military units but with powers to arrest. At present, only the US Coast Guard has powers to arrest. The other branches cannot arrest.
This DHSP force is Obama’s dream of an army he can control, (through DHS Secretary).