Security is good to the extent that it promotes personal independence, the most important dimensions of which have constitutional standing in the fundamental rights of speech, religion, privacy, and due process. Thinkers as politically and analytically diverse as Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Michel Foucault have all noticed that power in the modern era does not operate on a model of a king hamfistedly knocking off those he doesn't like. In that medieval model, if you simply avoid the king's wrath, you are free to do as you please. Power today does not have the discrete, isolated, avoidable forms of king or namable tyrant. You cannot avoid its lacy netting, spread everywhere.
Power now operates more by lure and surveillance than by pushing and shoving.
It controls more often by gaze and attitude than by threat and violence. You are no less controlled, but you are less likely to notice. In a bureaucracy, how well you do has nothing to do with talent, skill, effort, and creativity. Rather, it has nearly everything to do with how you get along with others. This explains how even honest cops support and make possible the corrupt activities of cops on the take.