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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Flash said:
In 'normal' times the deployment of the National Guard would be much less controversial, as it has been when the NY ARNG deployed to help with security in NYC at times. But this seems to be deliberately confrontational and possibly prepping for something much bigger and far more intrusive, planting at flag so to speak before pushing for more, and more...and more.

The number of Guardsmen being deployed is not significant, 200 to start so you are talking about having ~50 on duty at one time, a small enough number that frankly probably could be done by other Federal law enforcement as it has been done in the past. A much larger role for the Guard and the military in domestic law enforcement has been and continues to be advocated by current government officials, so it really isn't a stretch to think this is only the beginning of a much larger push for a military role in domestic law enforcement.
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First, I agree that the current push is deliberately confrontational. Trump trying to paint every “big city” mayor as soft on crime. Admittedly, some are, like Chicago and Portland, but others really aren’t like L.A. and DC but I agree this is contest between Trump and city progressives. Second, you may be right, and we wouldn’t be the first. Sweden recently passed a law to ease the use of military in law enforcement roles. We are fortunate to have the National Guard (assuming they are primarily used locally) because they genuinely want to help but are often citizens of the impacted area.
 
Griz882 said:
First, I agree that the current push is deliberately confrontational. Trump trying to paint every “big city” mayor as soft on crime. Admittedly, some are, like Chicago and Portland, but others really aren’t like L.A. and DC but I agree this is contest between Trump and city progressives. Second, you may be right, and we wouldn’t be the first. Sweden recently passed a law to ease the use of military in law enforcement roles. We are fortunate to have the National Guard (assuming they are primarily used locally) because they genuinely want to help but are often citizens of the impacted area.
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I remember sitting through a criminal justice elective 20ish years ago and the punch-line of the course was that the CJ system was rigged against black Americans due to a myriad of different factors.

The people who sat through more than one of those courses on the way to law degrees became Democrat governors and legislature members of blue states and enacted several CJ reforms to try to de-rig the system... policies like catch-and-release, mandatory discovery, and de-criminilizing recreational drug use. Republicans accuse these reforms as being red tape that impedes effective law enforcement. In NY, Republicans ceased to be a relevant party after Bloomberg turned purple.

City police enforce state criminal laws and follow state guidelines.

Like many things, Trump latches onto a nugget of truth and then takes it to 11.
 
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