You can add 20+ years of television indoctrination as well. How many police/crime dramas show cops regularly breaking the law (warrantless searches, etc) in order to ‘get the bad guy’.
Prepping the sheep for the slaughter, turning them into passive, obedient morons.
Most of what I can see as an immediate abuse is the importation of out of jurisdiction police forces to “assist” local police in enforceing the law and other un-Constitutional edicts from the local authorities, and maybe even the Feds...
Case in Point New Orleans (Katrina), of which we know all to well the abuses and over stepping of the boundaries by the “imports” that DO NOT have any compulstion about doing these activities because of their lack of compassion to the local population, no attachments or knowledge of the local mindsets, much less the laws of that particular area (state)...
Thats one of the big booger-boo’s with me...