The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration agrees with FBI Director James Comey that growing scrutiny of police is making officers less willing to do their jobs, he said on Wednesday.

Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg’s comments put him at odds with President Obama, who has rejected the notion that viral videos are causing reticence among police when confronting suspects.

The remarks, reportedly given during a briefing in Washington on Wednesday, underscore the widening rift on the issue, which could prove troublesome as the White House seeks to loosen sentencing laws.

“I think there’s something to” the so-called “Ferguson effect,” Rosenberg told reporters on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.

“I rely on the chiefs and the sheriffs who are saying that they have seen or heard behavioral changes among the men and women of their forces,” he added. “The manifestation of it may be a reluctance to engage” with suspects.

Rosenberg cautioned that he was “not entirely sure what’s going on and we ought to try and figure it out.”

Still, he thought “Comey was spot on.”

Read the article “DEA Head Backs FBI on ‘Ferguson Effect’” on thehill.com.