their jobs and not have to worry about having their lives worried about overzealous civil rights attorneys operating on behalf of a politicized they are going to see it remedied by this attorney general. bill: did the last administration go too far, ed? there was clearly a focus on blaming the police. there were bad situations that needed to be addressed. police were definitely blamed more than i think appropriate. this is a good move in that regard. however, there are departments that have problems that need to be addressed. it is not so much what you are not going to do as a justice department. we need to hear what the justice department is going to do to help the police to fix the problems identified. if it is not consent decrees to
leverage the local department or to identify problems and figure out another way to fix them. bill: interesting answers, last question, what is your sense from this department of justice, this attorney general thus far? you are two and a half months in, what is your read on that? clearly this justice department is doing things differently. they are righting some things that went way too left in the last administration. i think the police in the cities and towns of the united states are breathing a sigh of relief. how do you make sure the communities are happy with the policing you are getting and getting the quality they should be getting. bill: ed davis, thank you for coming in. out of boston, massachusetts,
extensively. bill: can i stop you there? what was the effect under the bush years when that happened? was it a positive or negative or how do you judge it? police were in a better position with the police department and weren t being blamed. it was a good thing for police moral. there is also the upside to these situations where you have a focus on the department and more resources come through the department to fix things that need to be fixed. a lot of the of times cities won t fund a police department properly. training is the first thing cut. bad things start happening and people wonder why. bill: dan was on last night on the first 100 days. she took the position from the police officer s standpoint, they need the protection, they need the help when she said this. police officers need to have the trust of the community to do