Obama and Law Enforcement: What Will He Do?
January 22nd, 2009 . by HSLEADERFrom Police.com, by David Griffith
As this issue of POLICE arrives in your mailbox, Barack Obama is preparing to become the 44th President of the United States. And if you assembled the other 43 men who have held the office and asked them to give him advice, they would tell him that regardless of what your goal was when you ran for president or the positions of your platform, events shape the presidency more than the presidency shapes events.
Case in point: George W. Bush. The much despised departing President Bush came into office with the goal of healing the divide between Democrats and Republicans and uniting the country. He leaves office with the country more divided than ever.
Such are the perils of the office.
No one knows how Obama’s presidency will play out. The only thing we do know is what he has said that he plans to do in the next four years. The following is an examination of what he’s said about issues near and dear to American law enforcement and commentary from leading law enforcement experts on how it will affect you.
