The policing arm of the state, often consists of a somewhat thankless task, in which, those that perform such, are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. A case in point, is those types of situations, in which, some good member of the public is complaining about some perceived to be public nuisance, or a situation in which there is a fair amount of people congregating together with what appears to be no good purpose, or somebody that doesn’t smell right or look right, and/or that is considered to be in the wrong neighborhood. In all of these situations, the reality of it is, that these particular people that are out in the public, are often perceived by the orthodox aspects of law enforcement, to be an inconvenience that needs to be dealt with in a forthright manner. Since, in most cases, these inconvenient people haven’t actually committed a crime against another person or property, laws have been subsequently written and interpreted as such, which pretty much makes undesirable public behavior, a crime. That is to say, the whole reason why laws, that deal with vagrancy, loitering, public nuisance, and disturbing the peace, actually exist, is to provide the pretext to arrest people, so that they can thereby be removed from the street and housed instead, in a jail or holding pen, for some period of time, with a charge so made against them, that may or may not stick.
What those that actuate the policing arm of the state, do not like, is to have those that do their dirty work, to ever have to work within a vacuum, in which, these police officers, can’t seem to find a code or a law that is applicable to what is so happening in front of them, and hence aren’t able to effectively deal with such. So then, laws are so written, that are vague enough but with some specificity to them, to cover just about any scenario in which somebody in public, that needs to be placed under arrest or forcefully moved, is going to in some way, form, or manner, be in violation of some statue dealing with, for instance, being a public nuisance, or disturbing the peace, and the like.
The bottom line, is that the powerful people that run the show, just want to have problems that are annoying or have been brought to their attention by busybodies and the like, dealt with in a way and manner that it has been taken care of, if not forever, at least for the moment. So then, in truth, people that are out in public, even when they are obeying every conceivable law, and are being more than civil, are, always in danger of being forcefully dealt with by the policing arm of the state, when those particular people are essentially, as viewed by those in authority, in the wrong place at the wrong time. These unfortunate people, then, will thereby be subject to being arrested or forcefully removed, as seems most appropriate to those doing the enforcing, of which, those police officers need not worry a whit, about proving that these people have committed a crime, for rather these officers have always the necessary charges to draw upon so as to do that which they have been instructed to do.