This little burg of over 50K has 20 each LE. That’s pretty poor odds on manning, if you are counting.
How many does it take to go door to door and clean out the ‘hoarders’? Most people do not prep and the guvmint can also rely on informants perhaps from well meaning gestures by preppers.
You can say ‘nope’ all you want but does not make it so.
That's the last year accurate numbers were generally available. Add to that the 120,000 Federal law enforcement...
And you get roughly 1.3 million government goons under arms.
There were 115,226,802 households in the US in 2008, per the Census.
Divide the number of households by the number of LE, and remember that not all LE will be available. Some will be off-shift, sick, or home taking care of their family.
How long does it take to search a home, confiscate material that has no categorization, and move on to the next house?
When you are being shot at, and people are pissed.
I wouldn't eat any of the confiscated food, it might be poisoned.
/johnny