I wonder if a cop participates in a regular poker game with a few of his neighbors. Then I wonder if his poker pals might initiate a heavily physical conversation. Will he arrest his neighbors or return to human status?
Cops are just guys who live down the street. That’s where they are going to be corrected.
I read somewhere that the town had only 16,000 residents.
That means very little tax base because it is apparently mostly working people.
That in turn means very little money for training cops and probably a third level chief.
So until the FBI or the sheriff’s department showed up, the cops probably had no real leadership or plan, making it a leadership problem rather than a failing of individual cops.
Just a guess. Time will tell.