<i>It&#x27;s not a system of justice or truth finding. It is an adversarial system of fighting with each other in courts.</i><p>From what I have seen, there are a lot of young people who have concluded that there&#x27;s no systematic system of truth finding, only adversarial systems of fighting with each other. Many young people seem to think this is what the Internet is.<p>The tragedy is that there are systems for discovering the truth, and there are better ways of doing things than &quot;win at all costs.&quot;<p>I have no idea if the policeman thought what he was doing was right or wrong (rationalization is very powerful) but it&#x27;s clear that he was acting improperly and abusing his position of power.