No, COPs as a rule are criminals w/ badges. Not one is worth a dime and never to be trusted. I think the premise of the article is hilarious.The bad laws made them ‘do it’. LOL, not so much. The only bunch worse are the pols who give them the rope. Then there are the judges...
To paint cops or laws with a broad brush is like blaming Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Medicine or Big Fast Food. It lets piss ants rant about the injustices they bring on themselves.
The police didn’t become an adversary to the people until the people decided to have them become their nanny and then didn’t like nanny’s rules.
Until we value and accept individual responsibility, no amount of bad legislation or enforcement of the same is going to fix lazy, bad values.