Yesterday, I read an article on MotherJones with a very accurate first two sentences...
"
If all you've got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal.
Pretty good article is interested.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...militarization
While this guy did commit a crime, it seems more and more often, people are being over charged with excessive jail time.. We aren't becoming a police state we are already there..we are a for profit police state, where the longer the jail time is, the better it is for the shareholders...