Experts vs bullies
People get very confused over words which have multiple, even contradictory, meanings. One of those is the word "authority".
"Authority" can mean experienced expert in some specific area, or it can mean a bully.
In politics, it only means the second one.
That's because no one can be an experienced expert at running other people's lives. Sure, they might be experienced at doing it, and they may be an expert at getting away with it, but they are still only a bully.
It's why I never soil the reputation of an expert by calling him or her an "authority". It is just too dirty a label.
I respect experts, and love to learn from them. But I despise bullies and never feel bad when they pay for their evil. "The authorities" are among the lowest scum on the planet. Always and forever, and there's nothing which can ever change that reality.
I think calling a cop authority is giving them too much credit lol. They're more of a glorified tax collector with a gun if you ask me. Basically meat shields.
Many experts become bullies. An expert can only ever speak from their own experience,they can never know everything there is to know and experts that downplay personal experience are no better than political bullies. I'm not big fan of either.