Which is why law & justice style TV shows display and glorify this kind of psychopathic, picking on the weak and helpless behavior, right?

Or do they show the criminal justice system as staffed by noble individuals that, on the rare occasion they cross a line, it is done with the best intentions, and bad apples and mistakes are a rare exception?

The system they think is great is imaginary, not the system you actually have. Try and think things through before you so casually condemn people.

I cannot watch any sort of cop show or Law & Order for this exact reason. It's a bunch of glorification of the government infringing on people's rights and normalizing it as some sort of reality of how the justice system should work. I wish there would be a version of law and order where no one ever talks to them without a lawyer present and they constantly get frustrated with their lack of progress despite their best efforts to circumvent the legal process.