The Constitution is a framework for government. It is not a legal code for citizens. Aside from treason, piracy and counterfeiting, (and previously alcohol), it does not constitute criminal law. The fed lacks a general police power, as all those were left to the states per the 10th Amendment.
The Constitution was meant to set limits on government power. To turn those limits on citizens while removing them from government is the height of irony.
The Constitution does indeed frame our federal government, but it also lists some restrictions on the states and on persons. The Fifth Amendment states that in the United States of America, life must be respected. It is, of course, up to the local government to enact this edict into law an punish those who violate it. But the local government still MUST respect this Constitutional edict. It cannot absolve itself from this obligation unless it secedes from the union.
Therefore, the local governments are required to protect the right to life, liberty, and property, and punish all of those who take infringe on these rights without due process of law.