In other words, you have no rational argument to make - you'll just go along with what the New York Times Corporation says you should think.
The fact remains that canon law applies to all Catholics everywhere, regardless of whether they live in a country that adheres to the rule of law or not.
You cannot just generically instruct all Catholics everywhere to blindly trust the police.
I'm pretty sure that in any other context, you would never suggest that everyone around the world blindly trust their government to do the right thing, but your emotional investment in hating Catholicism precludes you from exercising common sense analysis in this matter.