First:  I agree that the police are, in too many ways, broken.<p>But you said, &quot;Why would I approve of, say, the LAPD any more than I would approve of the MVSN?&quot;  My reply is that you would approve of the LAPD and not the MVSN, because despite the brokenness, the LAPD is still a net positive, and the MVSN were not.