Have you heard of the Ludlow Massacre?Besides the wild west when has a militia ever been used to fight crime?
Sometimes militia's are needed to protect workers from Pinkerton's and malicious Nat Guard actions.
Have you heard of the Ludlow Massacre?Besides the wild west when has a militia ever been used to fight crime?
This book right here does a pretty good job of explaining it:
Some of it stems from the Watts Riots, which was the initial justification for SWAT teams to exist, and yet you hardly ever see them used for such a purpose anymore. Instead they tend to get used to serve warrants, particularly for drug busts, because the other aspect of it is the "War on Drugs." There was a real "get tough on crime" attitude in the '60s and '70s, but the Fed could only had jurisdiction over certain crimes, like drugs. The local departments got in on it thanks to the Fed being there with all manner of free shit for them.
Again I feel we need to disarm the police. Why do they need combat armor and assault rifles to do their job? I mean that picture looks more like a military exercise than a police operation. Destroy 2am no knock warrants while you are at it. There are easier ways to catch criminals.
Place far more restrictions on how they are deployed. Unlike SWAT the National Guard have a proper level of restraints on how they get deployed. To send in the National Guard requires things to escalate to the governor of the state involved.I'm unclear on what replacing SWAT teams with national guard will do.
No Thin Blue Line mentality with the NG.I'm unclear on what replacing SWAT teams with national guard will do.
Leaving aside that it's bizzare to complain that the police are too heavily militarized, and then suggest the answer is to replace them with the actual military, and that actually trying this would be logistically impossible (NG can only be deployed by the governor, not local police or mayors), or that NG are not trained for police work, and like a dozen other issues that I don't know about but that assuredly exist:
What problem is replacing one group of heavily armed guys loaded with military equipment with a different group of heavily armed guys loaded with military equipment going to solve, exactly?
Place far more restrictions on how they are deployed. Unlike SWAT the National Guard have a p[roper level of restraints on how they get deployed. To send in the National Gujard requires things to escalate to the governor of the state involved.
No Thin Blue Line mentality with the NG.
Because the problem is a lot of US policing treats civies as either potential suspects or potential victims, and cops as both soldiers and investigators. Particulalry since the 'War on Drugs' took off.
Eh, Nat Guard are civies when out of uniform, cops are never civies again once they take a badge.Define "thin blue line mentality". Because you're talking about replacing cops, who interact with innocent civilians on duty all the time and think of themselves as soldiers and investigators, with national guard troops that would only interact with civilians as suspects and think of themselves only as soldiers.
That sounds like it would only make this alleged mentality even worse.
Look at Uvalde, and tell me the NG would have fucked that up worse than the local PD did.Plus that means the you would have people on full kit having to train more putting more money on the states.
As well as one needs to realize, you would basically be making sure that soldiers have to obey the standard RoE.
Wait until shot at to fire.
And then you lose soldiers because if that...
Soldiers get shot and die because they can not fire unless fire upon Ed.
I would trust copsnover NG.
Because majority of NG probably barley passed thier shooting.
And you want them to be ones responding to shootings?
Unless you mean a specific team, in which case would be impossible to have in large states.
By the time the NG got there it would have been around the same time.Look at Uvalde, and tell me the NG would have fucked that up worse than the local PD did.
Eh, Nat Guard are civies when out of uniform, cops are never civies again once they take a badge.
Nat Guard also don't get paid overtime to make court appearances, or get 'speeding ticket quotas' or the like from shift supervisors. Nat Guard also don't have Police Unions keeping bad apples on the force.
So yes, in most modern circumstances I think a lot of people would trust their local Nat Guard forces more than local cops.
I don't.I'm OK with reserve/NG members being responsible for their kit (arms included) and maintaining them in their home.
Ehhh....not really, especially when it come to the National Guard. 1st, there are no Marines in the National Guard. They only operate as active or Reserve status. Now, some Marines WILL transfer to NG if they want to go that route.Military training comes with a military mindset, and that does not just switch off when you take off the uniform.
To be fair things we're much better before we decided single moms were the best thing ever.Wonders of diversity. I have some relatives in the US, and from what I hear the big cities are basically war zones compared to situation in Croatia.
So if cities are war zones, it is only logical for police to become an army.