Yes, invading everyone's privacy and illegally searching them will catch more bad guys. I don't think anyone's arguing it won't.

I am arguing it won't.

What it does is it makes it easier for the government to manufacture bad guys* to then continue manipulating the public.

[*] How is that done? Gov. agency finds patsy; Gov. agency entraps patsy; Gov. agency blames patsy, says he is a terrorist, arrests/kills/tortures patsy, gets confession, passes new legislation, all in a day's work. If not a patsy, an ally disguised as "enemy".