Having worked in two Texas city attorney offices, I had the opportunity to see the police at work. They routinely lied to cover their rears, to support their arrests. In Houston, the throw-down gun was common.
The Supreme Court also kicked God out of schools and blesses sodomy, abortion, no-knock police searches, property seizure for private economic development, etc.
Our problem is with the politicians and their judicial appointments, not the cops.
Oh yea if people really knew the levels of corruption they would freak out.