Police seem to have shifted from protecting good citizens from bad guys to all citizens as bad to varying degrees and bad guys as something to be treated gingerly in case of lawsuit.
So the law abiding are treated as probably guilty of something and always cash cows, while the truly lousy, crime ridden areas are mostly left alone unless it disturbs the peace of “civil” areas.
The police, perhaps, are now contemptuous of and distrustful of the taxpayers while avoiding or protecting the persistently criminal.
Never forget: sheepdogs aren’t there to protect the sheep, they’re there to keep them from getting out of line.