It’s not encouraging to hear that President Trump has appointed Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke to a non-confirmation post at the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke’s intemperate behavior on Twitter might perhaps be perfectly suited to the Trump administration, but his reputation as a law enforcement officer doesn’t seem well suited to any appointment at all. The main result of this appointment seems to be that Milwaukee County might finally get a sheriff who actually does some sheriff-ing instead of traveling the country giving speeches all the time.

Clarke’s tenure as sheriff has some pretty egregious blemishes — and it’s stuff that’s pretty recent, not ancient history. In one high-profile case from 2013, a 24-year-old student named Tanya Weyker was t-boned by a Milwaukee County deputy. Her neck was broken in the accident. But instead of accepting responsibility for his actions, the deputy arrested her for driving under the influence (her urine and blood samples later came back completely clean) and lied about the fact that he had caused the accident by running a stop sign.