This country has become a police state.
It is not BECOMING a police state, it IS a police state -- where units of government at every level: federal, state, local, school boards -- anyone with a little power wields that power in the most dictatorial manner, just because they can.
Credit where credit is due: it was Ronald Reagan’s War on Crime/War on Drugs that opened the door to all of this statist exploitation. The ACLU, collectivist as they are, tried to warn us but we conservatives wouldn’t listen. I guess we assumed that police departments would always be run by fine, upstanding white males with a sense of honor...