I bet your tin foil hat cost you a pretty penny.
Last I checked, officers of the law are on the enforcement side - not the creating side.
A police state ? I sure hope you are not refering to your home state. I had several encounters with law enforcement agencies while there. 1) going just a tad over the posted speed limit - let go with a stern warning. 2) one each Sheriff Buford T. Justice (big pot belly, mirrored sun glasses) just did not like my truck. I assume he figured he would find / smell something, don't know. He let me go - after a bit. 3) Fish and Game - using wrong equipment on wrong part of river. Man, you talk about "code" for rules on fishing. Wow. And after a bit of a lecture he let me go. The military ID did no harm in all above.
Decent bunch of folks I'd say - 'cept maybe for Buford - he was a butt.
LVM
A survey several years ago in the Philadelphia PD showed that fully half of all the police officers would engage in door to door no knock raids to confiscate firearms "if all the paperwork was in order" in spite of both state and federal constitutions guaranteeing the RKBA.
My comment is that after a few of those JBT's were killed, you would find far fewer volunteers for door to door raids.
Last I checked, they were supposed to be PEACE officers, preventing honest citizens from being harmed by others, instead of the stings, falsified warrants, and confiscation as booty for enforcement of arbitrary draconian laws.
Another JBT?