@RABEL222,
RABEL222 wrote:
Police are supposed to protect citizens, not kill them. Police have begun to shoot first and ask questions later. And they have to much court protection for wrongful deaths. Especially when the victim is unarmed.
As I've said before, the other side of what you're talking about is the interest in protecting crime against law enforcement so they can make more money by getting away with more crime more easily and protecting their crime-slaves.
I agree with you that the constitution is supposed to protect people from governmental power, but that was also during a time when the governments of Europe were basically just colonial corporations, i.e. large-scale gangs of mercinaries paid to exploit the people of the world for the benefit of the shareholders.
If you look at organized crime today, it is global in a way that is similar to traditional colonialism. In the 1600s, they might have been trading cinnamon and cloves and tea and other spices and later opium, so now it is not that different to trade cocaine and opioids and other synthetically-produced drugs that have a very high dollar value per gram.
So the limits on governmental power that were enshrined in the constitution can just as easily be applied to organized crime regimes, if those crime regimes were operating out in the open, which they aren't because they want to avoid the kind of regulation they would be subject to under the constitution and state laws, such as prohibition of certain lucrative products.