A police state will embrace what ever mission they are given to the max, and damn the consequences. We are just obeying orders they say.
Disclosure: I have a fair number of police officers in my immediate family.
I have a very close and good friend who is a police officer and I believe that he is conscientious and would not engage in this kind of activity. Probably true of a large number, maybe even a majority.
That doesn’t change the hideous nature of this problem and the extremes we should be willing to go to put an end to it.
Legal extremes. Firing people. Cranking down the funding. Voting lick-spittle boot-licking politicians out of office forever.