Exactly, and the problem is there is absolutely no holding the police accountable for their actions when they falsely arrest and accuse someone, because they will just use the excuse of "well we are just keeping everybody safe and it's better than being sorry" or some such.
One of my relatives got arrested for drunk driving despite the paperwork from the police showing they were well below the legal limit and the only reason given for the stop was that a license plate light was out, so they used that as an excuse to pull them over despite driving perfectly.
(It was an Asian cop with a chip on his shoulder and I guess behind on their quotas).
They went so far as to actually file criminal charges, the evil bastards.
I had to pay $5k to a good lawyer, they cashed the check, went to the local heel clicking ADA, showed the paperwork from the police and asked how badly they wanted to be made fun of in court and would they like the judge to upbraid them for wasting the courts time. That was the end of it.
But for somebody who didn't have the money to pay a lawyer, they would have tried keeping them in jail and then brow beating them into trying to get a guilty plea for something they were innocent of, or trying to run them out of money in a long trial.
But the "good" people blindly let all this happen and even cheer it on because we need "more harsh laws" to deal with whatever the media whips up a frenzy about...