This is the same Chief Daugherty who, shortly after Iowa went shall-issue on CCW, sent “NO WEAPONS ALLOWED” stickers to every business in town, along with his letter urging the businesses to ban weapons from their property to “make both our (business and police) jobs easier.”
It’s just one of the ways Marion is a screwed-up town.
Marion is probably the most corrupt town in Iowa, and the police force is the center of that corruption. Have a very healthy tax base, the cops basically get what they want, when they want, and do pretty much whatever they want.