There is a certain amount of truth to this.
We can have a murder, standing over a victim, with a smoking gun still in hand, security cam video of the perp shooting the victim on a time stamped recording...
And it does us no good if a judge refuses to do their damn job out of political activism rather than adherence to the letter of the law.
What we don't have is anyone with legal standing to complain about the murder. No standing, no crime - unless they charge the dead body with littering.
On the other hand, we can have a guy shoot at cop cars with a rocket launcher and then get killed by return fire and the media will just cut out the rocket launcher part and announce that the cops were criminals. And it would stick.