What’s with the arch user meme? Is it good or bad?

It gives information in a high contrast interface. It cares not for your opinions

Not supposedly, a group that is duty bound to be accountable.

In your example for (A), you’ve unnecessarily used a controversial item in comparison to information/tool that is publicly available and cannot be used to do harm beyond holding individuals accountable, which for law enforcement, needs to be doubly more so.

A more comparable example for (A) would’ve been something like the location of a police station, which of course needs to be public, and publicly available and announced.

40 months is in no way long. All my devices last well beyond 5 years. Then I repurpose them if they’ve incompatible with accompany services like the internet or something.