Obama nor most legislators in congress have the first clue or any experience in law enforcement
He was a practicing civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law and was president of Harvard Law Review.
You may not like him, but to say that someone who has that level of professional legal experience doesn't have any experience in law enforcement, would seem ridiculous.
You realize that police don't think that, right? And other than those attorneys working for Dept of Justice and other agencies with a law enforcement mandate, I don't think many attorneys consider themselves "law enforcement" either.
The local ambulance chaser or deed auditor hardly goes around calling himself "law enforcement".
It doesn't matter what someone calls themselves when asking what they have experience in.
A deed auditor would tend to think that they have had some experience in the enforcing of the area of law pertaining to deed auditing without ever needing to title themselves as law enforcement.
Police are the problem, what they think is besides the point, they've invalidated their voice and are now the subject of the conversation about what to do about them.
He was a practicing civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law and was president of Harvard Law Review.
You may not like him, but to say that someone who has that level of professional legal experience doesn't have any experience in law enforcement, would seem ridiculous.