Originally Posted by GUWonder
That certainly is not the case when it comes to "terrorism suspects" in the world's largest democracy (and several others).
[Plenty of innocent parties stopped and harassed. And the greater the level of "stopping", the greater the violence in the following year measured by "law enforcement officers and security forces killed".]
Your use of the word "harassed" betrays your bias. You assume that the only reason that officers stop people is to "harass" them, as if the officers got extra credit or a commission for every person they "harassed" in a shift. I have been stopped by police from time to time, but I have never been "harassed." In every case, there was something that caused the officer to direct his attention to me, and in every case, the officer promptly told me what had caused him to stop me.
And, by the way, with the exception of anomalies like 2001, law enforcement officer fatalities due to criminal action have been decreasing steadily since the 1970s, when the FBI started keeping track. I don't think that is because the police have been less active over the last 30 years.
It's tough making a living as a law enforcement/security consultant, given that everyone believes that they're an expert.