I'm a 'government using funding to improve the world' vs 'govt using funding to control people' libertarian. Scientific r and d falls strongly into the former

I'm a 'government using funding to improve the world' vs 'govt using funding to control people' libertarian. Scientific r and d falls strongly into the former category. DEA, FBI, NSA, CIA, TSA, ATF, DoD, state police, county police, municipal police, neighborhood police, and other organizations used to control people. Plus the literally uncountable number of criminal and regulatory laws on the books that keep growing exponentially without congress taking time to go back and review old laws...