Too Much Law Enforcement and Too Little Crimes

Citizens of New York are in uproar after the police officer who killed Eric Garner was not indicted.  Protests like those of Ferguson formed in the streets of New York.  The police officer was accused of having murdered the 43 year old Garner through a tactic learned in the police academy but which many people claimed it was a choke hold.   In the video of the incident the officer who brought the man down to the ground with the help of other officers deliberately jumped on him and used his weight to bring him down. The grand jury decision has caused the country to go into major unrest because it is the latest in a series of incidents in which Caucasian police kill unarmed black men and have not been convicted of murder.  It has been an ongoing trend that has diminished the public's trust in peace officers.  President Obama addressed the issue in a general manner by stating that the events of Ferguson and New York are extremely unfortunate.  He wishes for the relations of the public and law enforcement to mend because there is a stigma that has been created towards police officers.  They are the enforcers of law and without them there could be chaos.  Reading articles from about a year ago, I remember how the Stop and Frisk policy worked superbly at bringing down crime, but after a while police officers were frisking the same individual on multiple occasions.  The problem may be with the allocation of officers and the fact that they have nothing better to do.  The article shows clips of the video in which it can be seen a dozen officers at the seen.  Is America headed in the direction of being a police state?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/12/03/8dc55084-7b2b-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html