A UK official concerned with bigotry among cops proposes to monitor their digital communications, I have mixed opinions about this proposal.

There are situations in which it is acceptable for the state to open a person's letters, but I think they call for a court order based on specific reasons to open that person?'s letters.

On the one hand, it is legitimate to monitor cops systematically in ways that would be unjust to apply to people in general. It is very important to fire cops that engage in bigotry, because they are likely to be thugs.

On the other hand, doing this to cops might encourage the state to do it to others.