re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Getting a warrant can takes hours and they might have been afraid word would get out and either the wife would recant before the warrant was issued or that someone would sneak into the house and dispose of the evidence. The LAPD doesn’t have to manpower to keep every angle of a normal house under observation for very long except for major crimes, so they may have felt it was “move it or lose it time”.

These are a lot of theoretical situations which are not mentioned in the original article.