There is an expanding law school, and a medical school is scheduled to open in 2014.
But the Obama administration's Justice Department has been cautious in its use of the expanded law.
The police chief's outrage is also understandable, but expanding law enforcement and criminalizing addicts is not the answer.
In addition to expanding law enforcement, the plan calls for public investments to stimulate the lagging economy.
But it was stayed after a coalition of bottled water companies filed suit in May, claiming that the expanded law was unconstitutional.
This initiative, however, is no substitute for more federal and state support of legal aid for the poor, or for other moves, like expanding law school loan-forgiveness programs to help graduates who work in legal services offices.
New antiterrorism laws have substantially expanded law enforcement agencies' powers to wiretap and monitor e-mail traffic in terrorism investigations and to detain anyone on suspicion of terrorism for up to three days without a warrant.
Yet the enterprise that kick-started both Miami's real estate boom and Don Johnson's television career was eventually reined in by the city's expanding law enforcement and the smugglers' shrinking brain cells.
He believed that the Reagan staff's disorderly chain of command on the issue foreshadowed a decision-making process in the Iran-contra episode that undercut rather than expanded law and order.
