Good Nazis sure followed orders. Good KGB sure followed orders. Yes sir, there were a lot of good folks out there following orders.......
An adult doesn’t express himself in the manner of a child.
We need Law Enforcement.
Many in law enforcement are very good people (I mean that).
The issue is partially societal and partially the LE.
1. Society has lost it’s values (religious, constitutional, family). I just wrote about this elsewhere. Today we are far worse than in the 60s, and this is what people would do back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Let me give you an example of what I mean. If you were to take a random sample of LE officers today and ask what amendment 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 state, what percent do you think would be able to explain what they say even in the most basic conceptual way?
If you gave the order to shoot at protesters, many in uniform would because the same reasoning that allows them to confiscate guns after Katrina, or to enforce stay at home orders and prevent people from peaceful assembly would allow them to do such. There is no high principal at work.
2. Concepts like patriotism, professionalism, and ethics are used to push folks in LE to be blind rule followers where “compliance” is king. They recruit folks that on paper are squeaky clean but that means little when it come to character and the psychological make up of these individuals. Many of them are on a power trip, they wish they were in the Army, or in fact maybe they were (sorry so was I - but the way of thinking I was taught in the Army as an Airborne Ranger in the infantry is NOT what you want as a cop).
We recruit wrong, train wrong, police wrong.
Frankly, having all the good cops get fired for worrying about people’s rights is a good thing because that shuts down any question that the remaining cops are themselves the domestic enemies of the Constitution that the Founders worried about.