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.
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.
You'd need Dirk Gently for that.
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 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.
Because allowing them to do that got us into this paramilitary mess in the first place.