When I was about 12, I was accused and harassed by cops for burning down an old house on our land. They would wait until my mother had gone in the car and then come and force me into the back seat of their car and blow cigar smoke in my face trying to get me to confess to something I didn't do. Had they asked me who might have done it, I could have told them who the local troublemakers were (and I would have been right). As a naive farm boy, I was the only one punished because when they caught the ones who did it, nothing came of it. It made a very large impression on me and although I have never been it trouble with the law, I think they are Nazis for the most part- who else but a control freak would want that job?