Today marks the one-year anniversary of the president’s inauguration. From the perspective of this retired senior law enforcement official with a quarter-century of experience in the FBI, Donald J. Trump receives a solid A- for his efforts this year related to law enforcement.

I can already sense from either end of the partisan divide, raucous cheering and angry catcalls.

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Look, we exist in a bifurcated, extremely divisive period in American political history. You’re either

fully

“for” someone, or you’re

fully

“against” them. There’s no allowable context, no acceptable

degrees of support

permitted. You have but one binary choice available: #MAGA or #Resistance. G

row up.

I am no fan of some of this president’s words, actions, and tweets. But much as I cringe at his, at times, adolescent behavior, well, I cringed during the era of 44, as well.

Trump’s reflexive, offensive, taunting, and unintelligent tweeting, bookends neatly with Obama’s bowing to fellow heads of state and agreement to a sit-down interview with green-haired, insipid, Cheerios-and-milk-bathing Glozelle, who famously inquired of 44 whether the Castro brothers put the d*** in dictator.

So let’s stipulate to my personal disdain for some of this president’s actions and attempt to apply an objective, dispassionate grade from the law enforcement perspective.

In order to do so, I have identified three individual grading components to apply to my assessment:

Rescue of the Department of Justice (DOJ) from Obama era activism

Look, it’s no secret that under the previous administration, the DOJ was “weaponized.” Whether it was the Lois Lerner IRS targeting scandal, the infamous Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonDolly Parton remembers Ginsburg: 'Her voice was soft but her message rang loud' Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election Calls grow for Biden to expand election map in final sprint MORE and Loretta Lynch half-hour private meeting about “golf and grandkids,” the “Fast and Furious” investigation obstruction, or the proliferation of issued consent decrees to hobble police departments that failed to meet their political muster, the Obama administration set records for selective “prosecutorial activism” under the combined watches of Attorney Generals Eric Holder Eric Himpton HolderThe Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy Biden campaign forming 'special litigation' team ahead of possible voting battle Pompeo, Engel poised for battle in contempt proceedings MORE and Lynch.

Trump’s DOJ has rightly set about to reverse many of these activist policies, and specifically reined in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, which has been criticized repeatedly for its blatant overreach.

The ludicrous P.C. prohibition against calling things what they are has also been lifted. If someone wishing to do us harm happens to be an adherent to “radical Islam,” there is no more cautious tip-toeing around at main justice. We can call it what it is; not shape-shifting, nebulous, ambiguous “violent extremism.”

And, while there’s much to criticize about the apparent dysfunctional relationship between Trump and his AG, Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE, many current onboard FBI investigators and DOJ prosecutors have privately breathed a sigh of relief to me that they are no longer held hostage to an activist DOJ.

Grade: A+

Border Security priority, opposition to “Sanctuary Cities,” and commitment to build the wall

I served in Mexico City as the FBI director’s direct liaison to the Mexican government and law enforcement during parts of 2013 and 2014. My biggest concern while stationed in the country wasn’t the migrant worker seeking better economic opportunity within the United States.

No, it was intelligence agents from hostile foreign powers and terrorist organizations seeking to make their way across our 2,026 mile porous border. It remains human-traffickers and narco-traffickers. These are truly nefarious entities — not abstractions —that the Left pretends doesn’t exist. The border security debate disingenuously turned into smears of “xenophobia” and “racism.”

And Trump has squarely confronted the disinterest in real border security from one side.

He has also realized that campaigning and governance are two distinctly different endeavors. But, by renegotiating NAFTA and rethinking the Mérida Initiative, Trump will fulfill his oft-repeated promise to have Mexico pay for the wall and secure the border.

And, with the proliferation of “sanctuary cities” under Obama, Trump’s DOJ has begun seeking ways to withhold grant money, specifically monies related to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, to cities that openly defy federal immigration laws. While currently winding its way through the courts, this “law and order” move to cripple strident Leftist mayors is incredibly popular amongst law enforcement ranks.

And the next widely anticipated counter by Trump’s DOJ is to directly confront California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Xavier BecerraOVERNIGHT ENERGY: Trump casts doubt on climate change science during briefing on wildfires | Biden attacks Trump's climate record amid Western wildfires, lays out his plan | 20 states sue EPA over methane emissions standards rollback 20 states sue EPA over methane emissions standards rollback Investigation underway after bags of mail found dumped in Los Angeles-area parking lot MORE who is threatening to prosecute employers who cooperate with immigration officials in efforts to identify illegal aliens.

Grade: A+

Vocal support for cops to combat the media’s, at times, false narrative

Here, Trump gets a mixed-grade. Vocal support is always appreciated by those who wear the shield and stand as the Thin Blue Line between us and the criminal element. Trump’s predecessor, President Obama, attempted to walk a too fine line and thread a needle that simply refuses to be delicately threaded.

Presidents should never weigh in on criminal cases before they’ve been adjudicated, as Obama did innumerable times. Obama also notoriously defended his buddy, Harvard professor Henry “Skip” Gates, over a Cambridge police sergeant in 2009, before all the facts were in. He also infamously defended the Black Lives Matter Movement and mentioned a Minnesota man shot by police at a memorial service for assassinated Dallas police officers.

Trump campaigned on having law enforcement’s back and returning the country to the days where law enforcement professionals were respected and appreciated. But he made a speech at the FBI Academy in December that I criticized as reckless. While praising an enthusiastic home-crowd law enforcement audience, I felt his words could be misinterpreted by some as a “dog whistle” to mistreat certain communities.

Remember, it came on the heels of his justly criticized speech on Long Island back in July, where he encouraged cops to be “rough” with those in their custody. The president was wrong to encourage —even within a quip — this type of abhorrent police behavior and abuse.

Cops don’t want “unconditional” support. We make mistakes, and should be held accountable for them. But the profession shouldn’t be smeared, as a whole, by some in the media. Trump seemingly seeks to counter the false narrative about police shootings and the mainstream media is a convenient foil.

But his approach is too often clumsy and words may be misinterpreted by the infinitesimal amount of criminal law enforcement officers in our midst. So, why not choose them more carefully?

Therefore, the FBI Academy speech was a “fail.” Similar to his ham-handed attempt to assign moral equivalency to the vile neo-Nazis and white supremacists at an August rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, with those who showed up to protest them. These were unforced errors.

Therefore, when we combine the good (A) and the bad (F) here, we arrive at a combined score.

Grade: C

Combine the A+, A+, and C, and the president earned an aggregate score of A- for 2017.

Not bad for year one. Clean up the unforced errors and Trump’s first term will be considered an undeniable success for American law enforcement.

James A. Gagliano is a CNN law enforcement analyst and retired FBI supervisory special agent. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at St. John's University and is a leadership consultant at the Thayer Leader Development Group (TLDG) at his alma mater, the United States Military Academy at West Point. Follow him on Twitter @JamesAGagliano.