So when someone has a beer or two after getting home and blows a positive test, they get arrested? I can't imagine this process being abused for revenge or spite.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

• A.I. Solzhenitsyn

The police in Western countries have long worked under the general consent of the population. The population, excluding those who were committing criminal acts, generally accepted that the police were going about their duties for the benefit of the society, to solve crimes and keep order. Even criminals relied on the police to enforce the law, largely removing the need for vigilante justice, and in most countries expressly forbidding it. Indeed, vigilante justice is often frowned upon even more so than regular crime, particularly by the justice system who likes to strictly enforce their monopoly.

Events of recent years in several countries, from BLM, to "climate emergency" related protests, and more significantly counter protests by farmers and others, to COVID related protests in many countries. The police response across the board has, in general been to side with the government (as in the political powers of the State), rather than enforcing the laws in the interest of the citizens of the country. This is not just limited to protest related activities, it extends to largely ideologically based activities around faggots, niggers and jews. Long story short, the police are being actively transformed into the enforcement arm of a communist revolution. COVID was used to effectively filter these forces to remove any who would stand on their principles and refuse illegal and immoral orders. They are creating the equivalent of the puppies in Animal Farm, indoctrinating and filtering the law enforcement to create a complicit enforcement arm. This is not some accidental occurrence, to successfully execute a communist revolution you need to have control of the force of the State.

The trouble that I see coming is that the completely reasonable loss of trust in the policing forces is now being framed as a type of "terrorism". Again, as is almost always their go to strategy, fear based propaganda will be used by the State to paint anyone who objects to the illegitimate and over reaching actions of the police in various countries as "terrorism". We are already seeing this here in Australia, I predict it will significantly intensify as more and more evidence of the criminality of the authorities (mainly regarding the COVID response here) come to light.

I don't see the authorities backing down from this. It will be up to street level police officers to either gain some sort of moral or ethical fortitude (or be pushed too far by their superiors) or for them to experience "feedback" in regards to their behavior. The actions of the State(s) in regards to painting anyone who attempts to forewarn of these outcomes has a chilling effect. If they were receptive to open and honest comment, they could receive these warnings and consider the direction they are headed. If they quash such dissent, they are largely guaranteeing the outcome.

at some point people will start shooting first

(we can dream, can't we?)

Umm, how do they identify who was driving - on the say of an anonymous caller ??.

Yes, that car is registered to me , but my (very sober) brother, girlfriend, neighbor was driving.

Maybe I'll report trudope.

If you see that at the front door.. Why would you open it?