American police are the way they are (including their ability to arbitrarily and indefinitely seize your property without charging you with a crime, as discusse

American police are the way they are (including their ability to arbitrarily and indefinitely seize your property without charging you with a crime, as discussed here) because nobody with the power to put meaningful checks on them has chosen to do so, and in the absence of checks police organizations tend to evolve into state-sanctioned criminal gangs. That's the picture as it exists today. If you don't see existing power structures anywhere in that picture, you may need [new] glasses.