I do think you don’t need citations to know that over-surveillance is a consistent happening, my apologies if you aren’t American.

New York recently finished settling and paying out a case where they were accused of heavily, unreasonably surveilling a number of muslim people and properties. In the end, they still admitted to no misconduct.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/nyregion/last-suit-accusi...

This is just a single drop in heavy policing that NYC pushed for and is still dealing with the effects of doing so. Stop and Frisk comes to mind: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=846365

Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing

>Citation needed

See: South Africa