[nobody9999]

>The difference in intelligence between the police and a singular criminal, especially the police as an organism, is vastly in favor of the police.

I don't agree, as that's highly dependent on that singular criminal and the resources police are willing to expend on catching them. The police definitely have an advantage, as I pointed (most recently) here[0]:

   Law enforcement aren't superhuman. They're just as dumb (or smart, but the 
   really smart ones end up in corner offices rather than police stations like 
   police and more common criminals) as the next guy. Their big advantage, 
   especially in a circumstance like this, is that they only have to get it 
   right (i.e., find some evidence) once. The alleged perpetrator of a crime 
   needs to get it right (in covering their tracks, destroying evidence, etc.) 
   every single time to make sure they aren't identified and caught.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35550259

Edit: Corrected link. Clarified prose.