'A day late and a dollar short': Sheriff David Clarke fiercely rejects remorseful statements from Obama in the wake of murdered police official

Sheriff Clarke claims high-profile politicians paved a way for further hatred of law enforcement officials

"When the president of the United States speaks, when the attorney general speaks, everybody listens," exclaimed Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. in a December 22 interview on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. "So they have to choose their words carefully. These are smart guys and they know that, but they chose the politically expedient route instead."

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Clarke, now in his 37th year of law enforcement and named the 2013 Sheriff of the Year, is outraged by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent bashing of law enforcement in the form of political rhetoric.

According to Clarke, the three high-profile authority figures have fueled hatred towards the police and "created a pathway that contributes to an unjustifiable hatred of law enforcement officers across the country."

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After recent tragedies involving law enforcement officials being murdered, Obama and De Blasio have completely altered their previous views into one's supporting law enforcement officials.

Their now apologetic statements are "hallow," a "day late and a dollar short," according to Clarke.

"I think it's politically advantageous for them to make those statements now and try to walk back what they did."

After the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers, Obama, Holder and de Blasio found it in their favor to rally with protestors in hate of the police rather than spark a positive change and stand by law enforcement.

"Eric Holder has indicted an entire honorable profession as being nothing more than a bunch of bloodthirsty racial profiling racists, individuals and agencies, yet he can't cite any proof," said Sheriff Clarke. "So, they're showing their true colors there, and then all of a sudden when something tragic happens like over the weekend and they come across with these feigned statements of empathy and sympathy - I'm just not buying it."

According to Clarke, too much damage has been done to now issue contrite statements.

"These men and women put on this uniform every day, like I have for 37 years, and they go out and serve their communities with distinction, with honor, with courage, with sacrifice, integrity, character," he said. "And for these people in these high-profile positions to disparage their reputation with a broad brush like that, I found it sickening. I found it despicable"

Clarke admits, there have been incidents where law enforcement has messed up, but to indict the whole profession is wrong.

"Look, our system of justice is not broken --all right?" he said.  "It is imperfect, we know that. It's imperfect because it's run by human beings and human beings are imperfect. You're entitled to due process in the United States of America. You are not entitled to an outcome. Sometimes our system of justice gets it wrong"

This is the messaging that should have come from the lips of the president of the United States and Eric Holder, according to the Sheriff.

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