"degrading trust" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to an action or event that leads to a decrease in trust in someone or something. For example, "The scandal had a profoundly degrading trust in the company’s reputation."
If Hosking has an argument that law itself degrades trust, very well; but he does not appear to make it here.
But in the Englewood operation, the bait truck wound up degrading already strained trust between the community and those meant to protect them.
Reports are beginning to emerge about increasing sectarian tension in Iraq, as trust degrades between Sunnis and Shia and fears of returning to the full-blown insurgency of a few years ago spread.
Obama is expected to stress that while the US will lead the drive to build an international coalition to meet his objective of "degrading and destroying" Isis, trusted regional allies will need to lead the on-the-ground battles against the militants.
"This behavior destroys morale, erodes trust, and degrades the individual".
And if a degraded exposure scene doesn't work I can trust them to snip round the edges".
That is a matter of fact, and to conflate a surge in individual viciousness with an existential threat is to degrade a country which deserves more gratitude and trust than that.
On the other hand, the indirect trust of nodes 30 and 40 degrades below 0.5 due to misbehaviour observed using the Bayesian-Evidence theorem.
To do so could degrade the financial information available to investors and reduce public trust and confidence in the capital markets".
This research investigated the trust effect of in-vehicle navigation aiding performance that degraded over time and assessed differences in trust among automated versus human aids in a simulated driving task.
Its reputation rests on the trust people have in its content, a trust that PR firms are degrading even as they attempt to mine it for their clients.
