Largely (albeit not completely) created by the state thanks to drug criminalization. For fuck's sake.

Funded and empowered by the state, and totally unaccountable...

“I have said before, if you write a ticket, and you get it wrong, I understand, and I won’t hold you to account for that. We have to shape the behaviour of people to get out of lockdown, and I know all of us want to be out of lockdown by Christmas, so please take the challenge.“ -- NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, https://www.smh.com.au/national/police-commissioner-says-off...