To paraphrase an old saying, "When all you have is threat analysis, everything looks like a threat." Law-enforcement in the US has become a victim of it's own unrelenting focus on threat-mitigation, to the extent that they are all too happy to use tools that have always been anathema to American Culture. We have mass surveillance, abusive police, and huge gulags full of people who's first crime was to be poor and under-educated. It used to be these were the things we pointed to when asked, "Why is the USSR/DDR so much worse than you?"

Epic fail, USA. Epic.