I think you're conflating the problems Richmond is having with policing and its public image overall with one specific policing event out of many that happened that same day—Except the two murders this article is referring to happened in a completely different week and time of day than the Happy Trees bust.

By saying "appropriate amount of resources," it sounds like you're thinking a majority of RPD's time that day and the days that led up to it were spent on this single bust, when in reality, the resources used likely totaled a small portion of one precinct's staffing.

It's the same type of argument people use on "why spend time and money on removing monuments than our schools?" when there are separate budgets and funds and teams for multiple things.

As shameful as RPD's public image has been these past few years, they are able to do multiple things at once because they have several precincts, units, and investigations going on at the same time.