While it's particularly egregious when military force is used to attack civilians for partaking in naturally occurring medical plants, it is obviously criminal intent to create maximum chaos and fear in the community afflicted with such military units.
It would take a very, very stupid LEO to not know prior to participating in such military operations that public safety was not increased by them, and my personal conversations off the record with agents of the penal industrial complex indicates a broad and general consensus amongst them of this truth, and that they do so anyway, for money.
This further opens the issue to considerations of corruption, as raiding the competitors of dealers with paid up 'insurance' can certainly be profitable, and these agents have already stated they do so knowing they are committing criminal offenses for money.
I assure you that in more candid discussions, such corruption is not only acknowledged, but solicited by such agents.
When we see that it isn't merely local phenomena, that some corrupt locale isn't where this is happening, but that this is a national problem--indeed, international--then a larger question that strikes to the heart of the cause of militarization of police agencies comes up.
No answer I have heard to this larger question bodes well for the freedom and security of Americans, or people anywhere.
Thanks!