I'm afraid you could be right. We are rapidly becoming a Police State/Prison State. They can arrest and lock you away in Prison for almost anything these days. You look at a Police Officer sideways,and he or she could very well arrest you and put you in Jail. The Police have been given too much Power in recent years. They're arresting and locking everyone up for even minor offenses. There is this rush to put everyone in Prison. Yet the People ignore this and just go on as if nothing is happening. The scales are no longer balanced. They've tipped one-sided in favor of the Police State/Prison State. That should be very disturbing to all Americans.
What disturbs ME more than that is the fact that there are so many Americans who WOULD look sideways at a police officer, or swear at him/her, or throw a punch, etc.... Personally, I'm an Authoritarian so I'm going to side with the cop probably 95 times out of 100.