If we are going to allow law enforcement to behave like this, you don't really have a check on people being disappeared. Even if the secret police are absolutely perfectly 100% scrupulous in only taking "bad guys" off the street for good reason, anybody could impersonate them, because they don't have identification or keep records.
For the sake of argument, stipulate the US is not right now on the same level as some despotic states. What is going to tell us that we've arrived, next week or next year, if anonymous security forces can grab people off the street with no accountability? What sounds the alarm, that the feds are not doing things correctly, or that someone is pretending to be the feds, who kidnap people?
For the sake of argument, stipulate the US is not right now on the same level as some despotic states. What is going to tell us that we've arrived, next week or next year, if anonymous security forces can grab people off the street with no accountability? What sounds the alarm, that the feds are not doing things correctly, or that someone is pretending to be the feds, who kidnap people?