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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.



> He was a practicing civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law and was president of Harvard Law Review.

That's a bit like saying that an Electronics Engineer who can build a CPU is a good person to hire to write Javascript.

Not exactly the same. But knowing civil rights and constitutional law is very different from having a wholistic understanding of law enforcement.


The claim was that he didn't have any experience, not that his understanding was merely less than holistic.

You'd need Dirk Gently for that.


Yes I was referring to on-the-street law enforcement, i.e. police work, which is the subject under discussion. Not lawering.


Lawyers are very much part of police work and on-the-street law enforcement.

You aren't in Mega City One, not yet at any rate.

Though taking a look through recent press, it is getting fairly hard to tell the difference, admittedly.


You know attorney and police officer are really different jobs, right?


They both have experience in law enforcement. Law enforcement thankfully still includes the court process, not just arresting people.


>They both have experience in law enforcement

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".


You seem to have confused experience with title.

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.


So is the argument that only a police officer can judge this situation?

Because allowing them to do that got us into this paramilitary mess in the first place.




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