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If one doesn't mind police interference regarding going about one's business when they've not done anything wrong, well o.k. then.

By all means, the police should have the power to frisk/search/perhaps enter my house without invitation because, heck, I COULD be up to no good.

I won't complain because I'm not a criminal.

3:00 A.M. - Bam, Bam, Bam on my door. "Open up"

"We're the police and we want to inspect your home for anything you may have or do that's illegal."

"Warrant, Warrant, we don't need no stinkin warrant, dirtbag. Unlock the door, we're coming in, like it or not!"

Sure, just be compliant, because you're not a criminal, so go along to get along...

Perhaps, we should allow ad hoc LEO roadblocks/check points as exist in so many Middle Eastern/South American/Mexican etc., countries and hope (gulp) they don't find something we didn't know was illegal in our vehicles, like say a baseball bat (or planted) unless we offer a little Baksheesh.

Once our little stipend (or all you have in your wallet) is paid, we can about our merry way...

Sound O.K. to all who don't mind LEO's going on wily-nily fishing expeditions?

After all, what's wrong with a little police state tactics?

If I understand the OP's experience correctly, he encountered LEO's going on fishing expeditions because their doing so "might" turn up illegal drugs or whatever.

I thought LEO's could/should only stop and search a citizen innocently going about their business would be for reasonable suspicion/probable cause or whatever the legal term is...?

Isn't this type stop (that is: a "fishing expedition") an offense to the 4th amendment?

Once again, I'm reminded of Nazi Germany and their demand of: Your papers, Schweinhund!!

If I'm right in my opinion and I experience such a stop, I'm going to their superiors and the press, plus of course, "NO YOU DON'T HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SEARCH MY VEHICLE!"