Agreed. We're all short on evidence, and I'm unwilling to rely on my (very negative) anecdotal experience to make confident general statements about police. But

Agreed. We're all short on evidence, and I'm unwilling to rely on my (very negative) anecdotal experience to make confident general statements about police. But many people see police as groups of thugs who show up and harass or abduct you at gunpoint when they don't just murder you outright. From where I stand there's more evidence for that viewpoint than against it.