How should law enforcement be trained in technology?

Article Title: "Computer Science Student Targeted for Criminal Investigation for Allegedly Sending Email"
Link is: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2009/04/13

To quote from this article: "Boston - A Boston College computer science student has asked a Massachusetts court to quash an invalid search warrant for his dorm room that resulted in campus police illegally seizing several computers, an iPod, a cell phone, and other technology."

This brings up an important question and hammers home a point I'm repeatedly encountering: How should law enforcement officials be trained to deal with technology? In a past job, I had to call in a specially-trained police officer to look at the computer of a user who had been charged with a very serious crime; this officer was clearly a geek who had been hired onto the police force to do this specific job specialization--computer crime investigation. I live in a medium-sized city, and I have to wonder if there are more officers than that one available now, or if there were more back then.

But either way: if law enforcement is called to investigate a technological crime, the real people you want available to determine if a crime is committed are white hat hackers or well-learned open source programmers. These are the people who can track the footprints of cyber-criminals. And it's pathetic, in my opinion, that campus, city, and state law enforcement doesn't get better training. I realize that this one incident doesn't speak for the technological representation in all police departments, but I'm guessing that, with a legal system unable to create laws that really touch Internet transactions and transgressions, there isn't a really active police force, either, that can recognize these.