What are your thoughts on calling out the National Guard to patrol inner cities?

Here is Wisconsin a Milwaukee Alderman proposed doing just that.

We had over 800 shootings last year and the unemployment rate for working age men in the inner city is around 45%.

How is this a political questions - Milwaukee has an EXTREMELY high amount of Democrats and I cannot ever recall a Republican Mayor in my time. One Mayor way back was actually a Socialist.

What are your thoughts on calling out the National Guard to patrol inner cities?tax credit

I have an issue with any of our Military patrolling our cities. They are not trained policeman. I would have to vote that down. Growing up outside Detroit I understand exactly what you are saying, yet they keep voting in a Democrat. Until the people of Milwaukee decide to take their own futures into their own hands they will always be what is known at modern day slaves to the government and subject to the conditions for which they themselves have helped create.

What are your thoughts on calling out the National Guard to patrol inner cities? loan

All we need is to get rid of gun control and crime would drop in an instant.

http://www.amazon.com/More-Guns-Less-Cri...|||They better were their plates and Kevlar. Statistically (per size) there is a greater chance they will be shot in D.C. or New Orleans that in Baghdad.|||The armed forces have no business patrolling any city. The problem seems to be the high unemployment rate. Find those people jobs and the crime rate would decrease.|||explains the unemployment rate...|||Bad idea.

1) The National Guard is trained %26amp; equiped to fight armies, not police city streets.

2) The Guard is stretched thin already.|||i think its a good thing, but it will never happen. i would like to see a police state or martial law in effect for 1 month. do you know how many illegals and criminals we would catch?|||It sounds like Wisconsin needs to start electing competent leaders that can deal with the crime issue. Calling out the National Guard is basically an admission of incompetence by the elected officials.|||So, your concern is not about the National Guard or the unemployment rate, but about if a Mayor is Republican or not? According to his site, 2004 produced 10,000 jobs.|||The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. 搂 1385) passed on 1878-06-18 after the end of Reconstruction.

The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states.

It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement.|||I think he forgot that the Guard is off fighting for

nobody knows what the cause is

And they%26#039;ve been there way too long

Have the mayor do something more constructive and petition his Senators and Congressmen to

STOP FUNDING THIS WAR

maybe then he%26#039;ll have a gaurd that can do what he wants|||Yeah, the National Guard sure did a great job at Kent State. One Mayor was actually called a socialist? Who called him that? Rush Limbaugh or you?|||It is racist! It is Bush%26#039;s fault for implementing racist agenda that causes these people to have such problems!|||The Alederman who suggested such a solution should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town.|||I am sorry about your mayoral problems. What a shame.

Yes, I think the National Guard would be great.|||its about time! all ghettos and places that threaten American safety need to be policed because obviously the people cannot handle themselves. nice pic by the way|||Bringing in the National Guard for a situation like this is akin to implementing a police state. If people would just hold themselves and their fellow citizens personally accountable for their actions, proposals like this would be unnecessary.|||not a good idea. work to remove the inefficiency of the local government and police dept. root out corruption on both levels, and carry out %26amp; enforce sentencing of the criminal elements-i.e. mandatory jail terms without the option of plea-bargaining.|||There is no easy solution. Like New Orleans and Cleveland, these people have an hostile entitlement mentality and until the right people are in elected office to clean up these cities, military police will only act as a band-aid solution. They need to get to the root of the problem.|||There is the issue of Posse Comitatus. We can%26#039;t patrol in the role of police unless we%26#039;re under martial law or unless there is a crisis within the police department.

It%26#039;s not that we can%26#039;t, it%26#039;s that we%26#039;re not allowed.

One interesting thing, though. My job, here in Iraq, is to work with the local population and help rebuild infrastructure, help establish governance, and provide jobs for the community. I would be embarrassed to tell you how much money we%26#039;ve spent standing up the local villages around Baghdad. It does work, though.

I wonder if there is a way to use what we%26#039;re learning here to put into practice there?

It would be an interesting study....|||Initially my thoughts are against it. I am fearful of where this nation might end up by involving the military in civilian affairs such as law enforcement. That being said, our nation has used, successfully, on several occasions the military to assist in civilian affairs during a time of crisis.

As for those of you who responded with provide the inner city men with jobs, I say, the inner city men should go get a job.|||Someone should introduce that person to the Posse Comitatus Law that states the Military cannot be used for civil Police Functions.

What you need is increased Police presence but that%26#039;s hard to do in a city with that much crime.

When the Supreme Court forced Rochester to introduce school busing to promote racial equality, they killed the City. People were not about to put their kids on a bus to go clear across town, not knowing if they were going to get them back or not. the result is that the people who could, moved out of the City.

the tax base fell and City services decreased. From 1969 to 1990 the PD went from 750 Officers to 625, but per capita, those 625 were taking more than twice as many calls for service as any other Department in New York.

The City couldn%26#039;t cut social welfare problems because most of the citizens were social welfare recipients. The couldn%26#039;t put that genie back in the bottle. The Social Services Dept. started finding jobs for the recipients to do but some liberal judge decided that you couldn%26#039;t make them work for the money.

To this day, it gets worse and worse. To save money, the PD went from 7 patrol districts to 2. You call the cops in Rochester, you may have to wait a long while for them to get to you. Everybody suffers.|||it doesn%26#039;t sound like a bad idea. its not a solution, just a temp. fix.

people need to put more ephasis on education and seperate the trouble makers from the people who are not yet corrupted into a criminal lifestyle.|||That%26#039;s not the function of the National Guard. Routine police work is a function of local government. I don%26#039;t remember hearing about Rudy Giuliani calling out the National Guard to reduce crime in NYC.

But he got it done, didn%26#039;t he?|||You really have a dream for a fascist police state don%26#039;t you?|||You%26#039;re seeking to solve the problem by dragging partisan-politics into it...AND...face facts, a Republican mayor and/or the Nat%26#039;l Guard ain%26#039;t gonna solve any problems for ya!

So...the best thing to do to %26#039;save%26#039; Milwaukee is to make sure that YOUR family members aren%26#039;t contributing to the level of crime (white or blue collar)!