Yup. It’s why we can absolutely mistrust them, and be justified in it.
The forces can be 99% “good cops”, and still be unworthy of anyone’s respect for the same reasons as the Catholic Church. They refuse to be accountable, and fight attempts at accountability while claiming that they’re an authority on how we behave.
As long as the organization is unwilling to clean house and punish its bad actors, the individual actors themselves can’t be trusted either.
They’ve made their own metaphorical beds and it’s their own fault they have to sleep in a pile of metaphorically used needles.
