Welcome to the police state USA. We keep being told that there is an increasing need for police in the USA and that it is necessary to give up rights that are the foundation of what the USA stands for. This kind of thing is the result - mind control. Being searched and harassed because you LOOKED at bicycles on a rack. You didn't steal anything, but even looking at the other bikes and perhaps thinking about them was enough to get you harassed by the police.

More of this is yet to come for sure as we expand our policing and sacrifice more of our freedoms in the name of security and public safety. As Wheel's receont post (just before this one) confirms, all this policing isn't making us safer or more secure, it only leads to more honest citizens being harassed and intimidated by police.

It is similar to all the crap we have to go through to travel by air. Now, we nearly have to get undressed, walk barefoot across a path that thousands of other bacteria laden feet have tred, forfeith all liquids and many personal items, be searched without significant suspicion, and STILL bombers make it onto airplanes.

Presently, we put up with it at airports because we think that the harassment is only for air travelers, but it is coming to YOUR downtown, your schools, your workplaces, and your homes as the police state expands.