Actually I do have a clue, you just don’t like how it sounds.
I am acquainted with several people who live in the surrounding suburbs. I’ve been told that even Germantown is starting to go downhill, the blight is spreading. There are quite a few other FReepers who will validate this.
As far as your description of police targeting vehicles with Texas plates, in this instance based upon information from an anonymous “informant” in another jurisdiction, you’re inadvertantly confirming what I wrote, that you didn’t like.
Aren’t such vehicles seized with cause as a matter of course, Coldwater?