It's no secret that the police generally did not like the Grateful Dead. There were exceptions (the police in Hamilton, Ontario were quite cool as I recall), but the travelling crowd of Deadheads that followed the band were often subjected to harassment.
Here's a report from 1991 posted on Reddit titled: The Grateful Dead And LSD A Study Into The Phenomenon by The Maryland State Police Criminal Intelligence Division.
Unfortunately, it's presented as a slideshow so I can't copy out excepts but in a nutshell it tries to make the case that Deadheads are LSD fiends and the parking lot scene is full of drug vendors.
As several commenters pointed out, the parking lot scene was generally peaceful and there were more arrests at an average NFL football game.
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