I mean, you went straight for "Google being a bro" and assumed they were actively interfering with police investigations and deleting evidence all just to protect poor criminals, so... you're not really one to judge here.

Like honestly, I'm struggling to wrap my head around how you could 1) be this naive about Google, 2) assume they give a single shit about poor criminals, 3) assume any big tech company, let alone Google, would go out of their way to delete evidence of ongoing investigations for anyone other than themselves, and 4) not automatically assume that the investigations were about Google, the multi billion dollar tech company with a looong history of lawsuits for things just like this.

Google hasn't been a "bro" for nearly 20 years now, and the only thing they care about you is collecting your data and stuffing more and more targeted ads into your life to profit off of you. If they care at all about poor criminals, it's only because they can't collect their data and make ad money off of them when they're locked up.