I think the idea that most law enforcement agencies try to paint everyone that they are taking action against as the "bad guys" is a dangerous road. This is how

I think the idea that most law enforcement agencies try to paint everyone that they are taking action against as the "bad guys" is a dangerous road. This is how you end up using SWAT teams to serve warrants to unpaid parking tickets. It attempts to make the law some sort of "good vs. bad" moral struggle. I'm sure that there are many laws in other countries (e.g. Saudi Arabia) that we would disagree make someone "bad" for breaking them. That said, painting the Mexican cartels as some sort of group of "freedom fighters" trying to bring drugs to the impoverished, oppressed masses is hopelessly naive.