This post sort of sums it up for me.
It's interesting when there's thread about a UOF incident resulting in charges the non-LEOs are the first to say "This is a travesty! This is an affront to justice!" and the LEOs generally say "Hmm, I'll reserve judgement and probably shouldn't say anything" or maybe even point out where the LEO went wrong.
I don't think this is a case of us eating our own.
There's probably a lesson in there for the non-LEOs.