You are absolutely correct. I have to end up in court in order to know for sure what I am talking about. I just figured some conversation on the topic could possibly yield some insight, which it has (to me at least).
Regarding conspiracies, I do believe that the current legal atmosphere we live in is not doing too well because of a very specific problem I see of how everybody, cops included, all exclusively seem to want ALL arguments to end up in court, which is not where some of them belong. As in, I am now otherwise forced to go to 42 USC court over what may end up being some VERY simple arguments, that the internal affairs departments of these police could have very well reprimanded their officers themselves over. But by systematically pushing everything off to a courtroom, and possibly never seeing the issues through themselves, or even trying them on, and perhaps not enough people on the opposite side knowing their rights, or enough of them, or be willing to fight for them, I do believe with a great amount of certainty that our "feedback loop" to police ourselves has officially broken.
For example, I have spoken with numerous internal affairs departments, only to have them "ratify" that what their lower officers was doing was okay, instead of just admitting the obvious. I attribute this type of behavior to some sort of department, city, even public wide "image problem" -- a type of denialism. For one case of mine, I have basically an entire city, it's police department, it's internal affairs department, it's OIM department (superior to internal affairs) and it's county district attorney department, all going along with the absolutely ludicrous idea that security guards enjoy reasonable suspicion type powers to detain, all because they don't want to admit that I caught DU security guards one night claiming to me that they were cops (I kid you not, I have the audio to prove it) and ran my name (without real cops present -- how can they do that? I still don't know) during a reasonable suspicion stop and detainment (they used those words, not me). They committed textbook impersonation and false imprisonment, and yet nobody wants to believe me that such things happened, because that's one of those yucky thoughts, ewww, like I was talking about earlier.
So yes, I believe, based on substantial evidence that I have collected and analyzed, that a larger, racket-like, gang-like, mafia-like mentality has crept into our system, whereby nobody wants to hold their cops to ANY fire whatsoever, and would rather believe that "they aren't dirty" and that whatever tickets they write "aren't bad." And well, I believe the direct result of that is now a jail system that is 10-20 times more populated per capita than compared to every other country on the planet. I believe that a supremely racist, "guilty until proven innocent," lynch-mob, witch-hunter, statistically-frauded, rich-against-the-poor, second-class-citizen, nazi-germany-style behavior has now arrived in our country (or maybe was always here) and now needs to be identified and eradicated, or the alternative will just happen, i.e. we'll simply destroy ourselves otherwise. If there wasn't such a pattern of behavior that my brother and I have caught, we wouldn't be so worried. We have been "exercising" our "rights" for the last three years since becoming homeless (through no fault of our own) and you wanna know how many times we have been profiled and arrested, potentially and likely to be totally illegally? FIFTY FIVE TIMES. Is that even possible? I don't know. But that number DOES NOT LOOK GOOD. We should have been found guilty by now, or thrown in jail by now, or gotten out of this wrinkle by now. Yet that number keeps rising, along with the statutory violations we believe we have been catching these police committing that nobody is willing to recognize outside of a bloody 42 USC courtroom...

