Also that would have set the precedence for the police to use apple as a proxy to put software on your phone/computer to monitor everything you do and scan for

Also that would have set the precedence for the police to use apple as a proxy to put software on your phone/computer to monitor everything you do and scan for them, while they lean back in office chairs and wait for a hit. Same would have been extended to any and all government bureaucracy. No warrant, no innocent until proven guilty; guilty until proven innocent is their credo.