It's amazing how we've let the police expand their powers in the last 30 years without so much as a whimper, all in the name of getting the bad guys off the street. There may be a few good cops,(I myself have met a couple out of the hundred or so I've had encounters with), but the majority are egomaniacal assholes, the school bullies, or worse the kids that were picked on by the bullies with giant chips on their shoulders. There is way too much power entrusted to the cop on the beat. Most people cannot handle that much power without abusing it, and abuse it they do. Even while being filmed (Cops) you can see extreme force being applied while the perp is being arrested, while the cops are yelling stop resisting to cover their asses, or when they taser a perp and then keep jolting him after he is down and docile, lord knows what they do when not on camera. On one cops segment I was watching just yesterday, there were 5- 200+ lb cops on this 160 Lb. guy, he was totally at their mercy and another 200+ lb cop was stomping him, his foot was out off sight of the camera behind another officer, but you could see him making a move like stomping and the poor victim being jarred by the force of the blow. The age of the police state is upon us, even keeping a low profile is getting harder every day. If you've had a run in with the police in the past, you are much more likely to have more run ins. Back when I was in my drinking phase, I aquired some DUIs. I know these asssholes followed me from my bar and stopped me for my third DUI, they knew that I'd be shitfaced after 3-4 hours in the bar and just waited in the parking lot, trying to get an easy DUI, needless to say, that ended my drinking career, at least my drinking and driving career. I've always wondered why the assholes didn't wait accross the street from bars and arrest the patrons as they drove off, I don't think that is against the law, and would be an easy bust. There was this Bar out in the cow country of Norco Ca. that was on my way home from work. I'd stop in there about twice a week and get hammered, never got busted from there but I always looked around good before I got in my car, it was only a couple a miles to my home from there. I must have at least 50,000 miles of drunk driving, and no accidents, hey I'm not recommending it, I was lucky. I haven't had a drink in 20 years, don't miss it at all.