Judging from your comments, it appears you have no clue what it is like to be on the receiving end of police corruption and coverups. Judging from the comments from other FReepers on this forum, it appears that they, and some of their friends, have.
We outnumber you. What a sad day for America. The truth is, no one is "innocent until proven guilty" anymore in our country. If you think such a concept exists, you are fooling yourself, and those who still believe that if they are innocent they have nothing to hide, you are naive!
You do not have to be doing anything wrong to find yourself arrested--sometimes just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or even being accused of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is enough. "Probable cause" is a myth; thanks to the hard-line 'War on Drugs.' No, "reasonable suspicion" rules the day, and the burden of proof to declare your innocence is on you!
If a citizen has to go so far as to put himself under surveillance for his own self-protection, that alone should tell you how corrupt the police you insist on defending have become.
This is why average citizens who have been harassed keep receipts, make sure they are video-recorded at stores, pay with debit or credit cards, sign in at events, etc. anything that can show a date and time--all to prove their whereabouts in the event someone gets it into his head to accuse them of something they did not do.
It may be extreme, and maybe a little paranoid, but just one encounter with corrupt officials will teach the lesson that no one is safe, once they have the knives out for you. Ironically, knowing your Constitutional rights and exercising them seem to trigger this outlandish behavior from those in authority.
For your sake, I hope you don't learn this lesson the hard way, as have so many others.
Gosh. Maybe it's because I show them a little respect and try to make their jobs easier, not harder?
Our video boy here seems to have had more run-ins with the cops in his short 20 years than the rest of us combined. Why is that do you think? Just unlucky?