Well, my specific counter-point was to a specific argument so this feels a bit like goal-post shifting. But on that note: whatever the ratio of good:bad is in

Well, my specific counter-point was to a specific argument so this feels a bit like goal-post shifting. But on that note: whatever the ratio of good:bad is in any field it is always still important to improve it. I hope noone would disagree that all your examples of bad behavior are, in fact, bad... and society should work to improve on them through culling the bad actors and enforcing standards of behavior and expertise. I might note thought that this article was about expertise which is a different issue than "do you trust general law enforcement". Again I think we are at risk of mixing two separate but important issues. At the risk of further blurring the lines though, in this separate case I still suspect the answer is to specifically address the underlying problem of untrustworthy law enforcement when that problem is identified, rather than accepting a world were we have to take that responsibility on ourselves at all times. ie I suspect the policy of better controls and accountability on the people we trust is better than a policy of not trusting.