Dr. Higgs is correct that most laws are evil, or just fucking stupid. He's also mostly correct that cops have essentially signed contracts to enforce the law, no matter how evil or stupid the law may be.
Still, I think that Higgs is falling into the same trap as the BLM movement -- he's blaming the stormtroopers for Palpatine instead of blaming Palpatine for the stormtroopers.
I do not believe that the majority of people get off on ruining people's day due to some technicality. The only people who regularly take pleasure in that are intersectional, illiberal leftists on the internet.
I think that the reality is that there are laws that do represent good moral values. Laws against murder, rape, robbery, and the like are things that we would still manage to enforce, one way or another, even in a stateless society.
A cop who specializes in robbery/homicide can be good or bad. If he's planting evidence and framing people, he's bad. If he's putting murderers and robbers who actually did the deed behind bars, he's good.
By the way, this is also why the leftist version of "defund the police" seems counterproductive to me.
No Matter how you put it, being a cop is a dangerous job. There is no amount of money that you could pay me to become a cop. The only kind of law enforcement that I could imagine being philosophy in line with my values would be tracking down the most violent, disgusting people on the planet and I don't think that I want my day to day life to include arresting a junky who just microwaved a baby because it was crying too loud.
Who the fuck would want that life at $50k a year? $70k a year? $100k a year?
What you get by defunding the police by leftist standards are more cops who just need the paycheck and have delusions of grandeur. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to cops, just like we're doing with teachers, because nobody with options are taking those jobs anymore.
Look, I'm aware that, for somebody who isn't a lawyer, if spent a disproportionate amount of time reading about the law compared to most people that I know. I know enough about the law to, when I'm asked a legal question, tell the person to ask a lawyer. Most cops don't know as much about the law as I do. I say that confidently.
That's horrifying.
Still, that bolsters the likelihood that most cops are, at the very least, well intentioned. Most people probably don't join the force to fulfill a fantasy of harassing minorities, and people who smoke weed, or handing out traffic tickets. Most people have that romantic version of their jobs in their heads that they'll stop the next rape or murder or robbery or the like. It's not uncommon for a person to sign on the dotted line to do a job and not know what exactly the job requires.
Basically, I think that Higgs is both rather myopic in his analysis and inserting being well educated as a prerequisite for being a good person. We would all fail his test in some regard.