It looks like we are heading for a police state

[BLUEHAWK]

I don't believe America will become a true "Police State" unless the power to elect representatives (i.e. the ones who enact the laws which police must then enforce) is further reduced. Closed primaries, gerrymandering and the electoral college have gone a long way toward eliminating the democracy we would like to think we have, however.
In a nation exceeding 250,000,000 gun-bearing population, some police presence is inevitable. American police agencies are enormous when you think about it. There is an incredible redundancy at federal, state and local governmental levels, and even private police forces everywhere we turn.
I believe that 99% of our police are decent brave people doing mundane and often dangerous dirty work 24 hours a day. It's that 1%, thusfar, who lose it or never should have been given it who give the rest of them a bad name.