I'm being truthful. Why is that being smug?
"If you are not part of the solution, you are (or were) part of the problem."
The "problem" was crime. I arrested many people for violent felonies. How is that not being part of the solution?
If you don't ask the right question, seldom do you get the right answer. The discussion is about police misbehavior, not about your work ethic.