Somebody has actually asked the question from (2) in all seriousness. Ariana Huffington:

… isn’t it the height of madness to use America’s finite law enforcement resources to seek out and arrest people for tapping the foot of a cute undercover officer in a restroom?

Ms. Huffington is presumably not aware that America’s finite law enforcement resources are also used to do things like write traffic tickets and operate speed traps.

Clearly, all our local law enforcement resources should be used primarily to fight the terrorist threat, since as Ms. Huffington huffily informs us:

In the consensus judgment of America’s 16 intelligence agencies, the terrorist threat to our homeland is “persistent and evolving,” placing our country in “a heightened threat environment.”