As someone who lives in Baltimore, the riots reminded me why I'm less afraid of the police than of my neighbors. Police flying overhead to capture publicly visible events didn't try to throw a chair through the window of the restaurant I was eating at with my family, or vandalize the drug store by my house, or break the door of my favorite fro-yo place.

It's not that I'm not sympathetic to the general idea the ACLU and EFF are pushing here. It was just a reminder of why the public gives the police so much power and benefit of the doubt.