Even worse is the fact that many local governments have turned law enforcement into a self-sustaining business supported by what is essentially racketeering.
"The Jones case requires the Supreme Court to decide whether modern technology has turned law enforcement into Big Brother, able to monitor and record every move we make outside our homes," said Susan Freiwald, a law professor at the University of San Francisco.
Inside the Oakland Convention Center, dozens of military turned law enforcement contractors showed off their wares.
With the beginning of nationwide Prohibition on January 17 , 1920 after formal ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment the previous day, efforts turned to enforcement of the new law.
A two-year study, published in the journal Addiction in 2008, found that those parts of the country that turned to enforcement instead of treatment fared poorly.
The former U.S. serviceman turned law enforcement officer, who by all accounts has lived an exemplary life, has a blaringly obvious blindside.
Turning law enforcement into a tool of partisan politics is a serious offense, and a Justice Department investigation is under way.
Mendelson blamed the city for turning photo enforcement into a revenue stream that the city depends on to balance its growing spending.
It's part of a trend by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to turn law enforcement, and the law itself, into tools for policing opinions.
Other prosecutors accused the Morsi government of trying to turn law enforcement into a political tool, and on Monday they staged an angry protest at the door of the high court building where Mr. Abdullah works.
