If the government (and by proxy it's enforcement agencies) didn't have so much unaccountable power over people being visited by a police officer over something frivolous wouldn't be nearly as intimidating nor would the government's enforcers wouldn't have to deal with allegations of intimidation over such actions in the (probably majority of) cases where they are not being used to intimidate. The intimidation here is entirely predicated on the police's ability to screw these women over with no recourse on a whim.
