Let's say a conservative/libertarian candidate wins some election for POTUS in the future.
He has the ability to appoint directors of agencies such at the IRS, ATF, and FBI. But can he appoint counsels to audit law enforcement agent arrest histories and do a forensic analysis of what would effectively be paperwork violations versus violent crimes, and purge paper chasers and/or promote agents that have the highest arrest ratios of violent criminals?
Is there some sort of LEO union/lobby that would get in the way of such a thing?
Mostly I'm thinking of the ATF in regards to this, with agents that mostly subsist on entrapment cases and chasing down AR pistol brace buyers and the like. IRS would mostly be paper chasing and hard to de-weaponize as a political tool... but FBI needs a house cleaning about as bad as the ATF. Promoting FBI agents that have strong records of chasing interstate kidnappers and dismantling real terrorist cells (not retards they have to entrap and spoonfeed the entire way) would go a long ways to fixing that agency.