United States federal government should substantially decrease its authority

The United States Constitution is the supreme law that citizens of the United States must follow. In addition, citizens of nation are protected by these laws particularly called the Bill of Rights. As to law enforcers, they need to obey the law before enforcing it. The examples given in my previous round was mainly to show how police officers abuse their authority. They did not come up with a legitimate evidence in order to successfully convict a person because they often rely on their false judgments and assumptions. Not only in the examples I have indicated but also the police are violating citizen's rights in general because they do not know how to properly enforce the law without abusing it. On the other hand, what about those innocent people who were convicted of the crimes they did not do? Should not the United States federal government decrease their power because the system abuses it which make it so unreliable and can not solve a problem? Also, revising Fourth Amendment to make it stricter would just result to unreasonable search and seizure and further wrong convictions. This will result to a big problem in the future. There are many stops that did not result to an arrest especially the stop-and-frisk policy. Statistics say that stop-and-frisk does not work. No one has ever proved yet that stop-and-frisk actually decrease crime. Further, many of these stops have made them feel uncomfortable. Police officers tend to stop individuals because of their false judgement or assumptions. They do not follow proper stop-and-frisk which makes the community feel uncomfortable around the police. In the given example in my previous round, sense of smell is a very deceitful way of determining whether the person have been drinking and driving. For instance, while driving down the block police officer decides to stop an individual driving a car because he believes that the person driving has been drinking alcohol for he smells alcohol coming out of his car. This could be problematic because it could be other person in front of the individual being stopped that has been drinking. Now, officer stops an innocent and sober person because of his wrongful hunch. As a result, this aggravates the innocent person because officer makes them feel uncomfortable, delays and sometimes gives them trauma. In response to "the legitimacy of the police officer's hunch to legally search someone's car is also reviewed by a court to ensure legality," hunches are not legitimate ways to justify a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity; officers must have a particularized suspicion based on articulable facts in order to legally perform a stop-and-frisk/seize. Source: http://blogs.findlaw.com... It is undeniably true that a nation won't survive by itself without all these agencies working together and helping to build a well-established nation. However, are these agencies or the government itself really doing their best for the country? In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the government and the New York Police Department played a big role in this era. The number of crimes and disorders, not only in New York but nationwide, dramatically increased. The main reason why this happened in New York was because the government was controlling the New York Police Department to an extent where they are not doing the right thing anymore. They watched crime happen in front of them and refused to do anything about it. The government abused its authority because they took different ethnic sides because while was a riot going on between people of different cultures, the government took advantage of it to regulate votes for future elections. . With all the agencies you mentioned, we still have major problems that the government or agencies can not seem to solve: high percentage of unemployment, country is in trillions of debt, the economy is in a crucial state, and unaffordable health care. They have too much authority that they are not using it in the right way. This could be proven with the current situation of our country