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We don't know that. We do know that the FBI, NSA, and other federal agencies are overly anxious to support local law enforcement - by providing wartime hardware and weapons, as well as support in spying. We know local police patrols use Stingray devices, disrupting cell service and sweeping up private communications without a warrant - that's just a single instance.

We have no idea how easy it is for local law enforcement to pick up the phone and request "support" by having a NSL issued.

One could infer how difficult it would be to maintain secrecy as the number of privileged enforcers expands. The longer that secrecy is maintained, the less access probably exists to the privilege.

I'm comfortable assuming that my local beat officer probably can't signal to his superior to pull an NSL on me and start reading every piece of data my devices are streaming over TLS.

I'm not sure that high level enforcers should have easy access either, though. What's the old saying? Something like you rise to the level of your own incompetence?

yes. you can trust that only people who should have your data can get it :/