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Issue: 833 Date: 8/10/2006
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Missouri State Fraternal Order Of Police Endorses McCaskill
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| Police Officers Cite McCaskill's Record Of Accomplishment Fighting Meth, Funding Law Enforcement, and Putting Criminals Behind Bars |
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Standing with law enforcement officers from the Missouri State Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) in front of the Charles Evan Whittaker Federal Courthouse in Kansas City, U.S. Senate Candidate Claire McCaskill announced her endorsement from the FOP. The FOP cited McCaskill's strong record of working with police and locking up criminals, making law enforcement a priority, setting the national standard for meth prosecution, and founding the drug courts as key reasons for the endorsement.
"Law enforcement has no greater ally in this race than Claire McCaskill," said Butch Albert, First Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police. "Throughout her career, she has stood with law enforcement- fighting the war on meth, putting criminals behind bars, and giving us the resources we need to keep Missouri safe. That's why we are proud to endorse her for U.S. Senate."
McCaskill was one of the first prosecutors nationwide to crack down on meth, leading General Barry McCaffrey, the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to state that her approach was "a model for the rest of the nation." As Jackson County Prosecutor, McCaskill instituted one of the nation's first drug courts, which diverted those charged with minor drug-related crimes into yearlong treatment programs, strengthened local law enforcement capabilities against drug labs, and ran one of the first meth sting operations in the nation against retailers selling ingredients to make meth.
While McCaskill supports the goals of the recently passed Combat Meth Act, she believes that it cannot undo the damage caused by Talent-backed cuts that are now crippling rural meth law enforcement. Talent has a long record of voting against critical funding for the war on meth
"If we're going to win the war on meth, we need to do more than talk the talk, we need to walk the walk and fund our law enforcement" said McCaskill. "I understood the urgency of fighting meth over a decade ago, not just in an election year."
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