It is not so simple - trends are important. For now few things are clearly visible: 1. US spends disproportionately on security and surveillance. 2. There is

It is not so simple - trends are important. For now few things are clearly visible: 1. US spends disproportionately on security and surveillance. 2. There is mission creep and mission search in all security related branches. 3. Vague laws gives prosecutors insane amounts of heavy mallets with which to threaten people - if 95% of trials end with guilty plea and a deal - due process is illusion. 4. US is having very high incarceration per capital ratio. And while 4 has leveled in the last few years I think the other are accelerating. Of course it is not impossible to be reversed. Or even that hard.