What's striking is the correlation between excessive police tactics and enforcement of victimless crimes. From a right libertarian point of view, it is the gov

What's striking is the correlation between excessive police tactics and enforcement of victimless crimes. From a right libertarian point of view, it is the government's responsibility to protect your rights, not to protect you. From a left libertarian point of view, it is the government's responsibility to demonstrate that the good of enforcing a law outweighs the loss of individual freedom and other harm of enforcing it. Drugs, immigration, fail those tests. Many sex crimes fail those tests. Seatbelt laws probably fail. The police have to be so aggressive about these things because they never lent themselves to enforcement in the first place.