They are surprised????? Hell....they have their own website for petes sake. How smart do you have to be to catch these people? It basically tells me that no one really cares unless you want to catch a certain individual.
Bingo. Our nation's law enforcement is selective at best.
The policy on the border now is if they have less than 500 pounds of dope, let them go. So they all bring 490 in now just in case they get caught.
And police will speed by speeders when they aren't on traffic ticket "duty". And there may be more dangerous interesections to patrol but more lucrative locations and times of day to enforce the law.
So yeah, when they bust up a call girl operation, it is because of pressure coming down on them. And some of the names will get released to the wires but others will forever be supressed.
In Houston there was a club called the butt naked club and customers felt they were safe from arrest because they saw cops in uniform doing coke while groping naked girls.
When the Fox affiliate did a ride along for the police raid, there were no police present at the establishment day. Think the word went out in the deparment "you'd better not be there"?