I think you have lost the plot, now you are comparing organised international internet crime with some individual shouting defamatory content at someone on line. Yeah, because local and federal police will be used to hack into the Russian nuclear missile system to avert WW3. You are confusing some professional criminal with the average internet user who thinks hiding behind a VPN will save them. There is a big difference between someone using simple precautions and someone with active changing mechanisms of deceit. The silk road and many other international crime peddlers are not hiding behind a simple VPN, sitting at home shifting illegal parcels of drugs and people via eBay and Amazon from some office. BTW, some are that stupid and get caught, but that's not the point.