An example of how this kind of harassment can ruin people's loves over nothing.
About 10 years ago my nephew went to a sports bar about 3 blocks from his apartment to watch a Steelers football night game.
He drank 3 beers over about a 2 hour period.
After leaving the bar, he was walking on a public sidewalk to go back to his apartment. It was about 11:00pm.
A cop car stopped, and spotlighted him and told him to take his hand out of his coat. The two cops got out of their cruiser (he is still blinded by the spotlight) and started asking him what he was doing, and where he was going. He told them. Then they started asking how much was he drinking etc. etc.
Long story short, he was arrested for public intoxication. Walking alone on a public sidewalk when no one was around with a blood alcohol BARELY over legal limit. He was nowhere near drunk.
He worked for a liquor store that had a zero alcohol policy. If an employee gets arrested for alcohol they are immediately fired.
He lost his job, and because of that lost his apartment, and because of that had to drop out of college for a year.
He was simply walking home.