If cops have anything to do with a small garden of ten medium sized plants, it's most likely cause some prick citizen found them and called the cops. Or some young kids found them and blabbed about it everywhere. That being the case I would have to say that they would just chop them down on spot, since the citizen/loclal law enforcement thought they were "dangerous" to the community (haha). Probably same if a chopper spotted them, although drug task force teams have been known to leave small grows alone in hope that the grower would grow even more the next year so the cops can get a bigger bust and fulfill their dreams of interacting with a "drug operation" (haha).
Whatever the case may be it is not wise to grow ten plants in a clump like that. Cali, legal grow-ops and no fly zones/no heli fly-overs are the only exception I suppose. I know I woulndn't ever do such a thing! For many reasons!
Good Luck Bro.