If a cop accepted a police job, and with that salary amassed a net worth of 50 million, he would be quickly investigated.
Almost everyone in Congress arrives as high middle class. They leave very wealthy, far beyond the possibility implied from their salary.
Well, the ‘big difference’ is that the cop isn’t (illegally) EXEMPT from every ‘law’ on the books.
Equal under the Law only applies outside the halls of D.C., or their donors/lackeys.
Add in the Judiciary, whom knows who butters their bread (more lawyers = more laws = more court = ...), and an Executive whom is selective in the enforcement of ‘laws’ and you have the trifecta of tyranny.