I am concerned about any expansion of police power, including local forces. One of the protections we have against unjust laws is that they are unenforceable, but that protection is eroded when the police get expanded budgets. Whenever the police become better equipped to enforce the law, the citizens suffer because of it. We have a lot of unjust laws on the books; giving the police more ways to enforce those laws is harmful to our society.
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." --Abraham Lincoln
†may require working democratic process, ability for regular people to affect policy change, lack of special interest groups with opposing positions, and a congressional representative who will actually do something about the issue for you. restrictions apply, including but not limited to: population of those disaffected is too small; population of those disaffected is discriminated against by the population at large; population of those disaffected is too poor and focused on survival to work at policy change; congressman disagrees; congressman doesn't care; policy is remotely controversial; policy can be associated with incendiary buzzwords such as socialism, government spending, and "big government"; and more.
see: "the war on drugs"
You want to change the system? Learn how it works first and stop throwing the problem into the too hard basket.