The problem with having so many laws, of which some of those laws are so open-ended, such as in loitering or disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct that these can thereby be adeptly applied to just about everyone, which signifies that everyone is at any time, susceptible to being arrested, and while spurious laws that are structured to capture anyone may not hold up in a court of law, they are, though effective in getting someone arrested and thereby taking away their freedom, while also intimidating and inconveniencing them, along with potentially negatively affecting their employment, their necessary obligations, and their life, for to be arrested even when all charges are subsequently dropped, still means that this arrest will in all probability be part of the public record.
Indeed, being subject to a spurious arrest does separate the sheep from the goats, for there is many a person who has been arrested by the selective enforcement of the law, that through that experience will be far more reluctant to engage in whatever behavior that made that person to be subject to that arrest, and therefore because of that arrest, this takes away their freedom, for no justified reason. This thus signifies that whenever the policing arm of the state has the tools of the trade to arrest anyone under the umbrella of laws that are so broad that they are applicable to everyone, it essentially makes that policing arm to create what is a police state, which thereby impinges upon our freedom.
The worse part of the people being subject to being arrested on a bogus charge is the fact that this permits the policing arm of the state to target those that are considered to be not really enemies of the state, but rather those that are irritating or inconvenient to the state, to thereby to get these people to settle down and to behave per the desires and dictates of those that are the power brokers of the state. In other words, freedom is a great power of the people, and whenever that government determines that such freedom conflicts with their desires, they thus, through that policing arm, put the hammer down and especially target those that they consider to be the most vulnerable, in being unable to handle law enforcement pressure.
It is unfortunate that we now live in a day and age, in which our government, through its policing arm seems to be one that isn’t there to protect and to defend our Constitutional rights, but rather is structured in a way and manner to try to control and to manipulate the population, so as to favor the few and well-positioned over the many. This is why all sorts of real crimes, financial, ethical, or criminal that are committed by the elites are so often treated with kid gloves, with the exception of those that are well-positioned but have fallen out of favor with those elites, because the law, as applied, protects the elite establishment and targets especially those that get in their way or that annoy them.