Basically, most people live in comfortable ignorance of the Law (Capital 'L' law, that is), for most people, the first brush they may have is a minor infraction of a traffic law, or perhaps a zoning violation as they go about their daily duty to their families by making the 'homestead' a more fit place to live; maybe an errant child will smack the local bully in the snout at the wrong time - little stuff like that.
What you propose is to intervene in the arena of the big dogs; a bloody and dusty ring where the tails, feet and fur go flying when the hounds of Main Street are loosed.
Study the code; the code is the armor, your job is to find the chinks. Read your state constitution, memorize it, use it to leash the hounds or bet on the winner.
Politics is the original organized crime.
Funny... I keep a copy of the NYS Constitution on my desk. My copy is 219 pages long!