In August, Gov. Tate Reeves deployed 200 troops from the Mississippi National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 204th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, to Washington, D.C. They were sent, Reeves said, in support of President Donald Trump’s push to “return law and order to our nation’s capital.”
“Crime is out of control there, and it’s clear something must be done to combat it,” Reeves added. According to former senior members of the Mississippi National Guard, these troops have had no relevant training to prepare for such a mission. Rather, their training has focused on combat missions in support of active duty units. At most, they received a half day of riot control training and may have participated in security support following major disasters. The use of National Guard troops by presidents in support of law enforcement has been rare and occurred primarily in response to civil unrest or disorder. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military from enforcing domestic law. When the president “nationalizes” National Guard troops, they fall under the act. “Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have stated they intend to deploy National Guard troops to other cities across the country, raising concerns they’re ‘creating a national police force with the president as its chief,’” the Associated Press reported last week. A California judge has already ruled that Trump violated Posse Comitatus by sending National Guard troops into Los Angeles. Sen. Roger Wicker seems to think such usage of the National Guard is a good thing. “If I were one of those mayors, I’d be glad to have the help,” the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee told the AP. Help to do what?
Stationing troops throughout cities can hinder crime, but only so long as the troops remain. Is the president’s plan to permanently deploy troops in cities with high crime? That would be an entirely new mission for the National Guard. And armed soldiers cruising neighborhoods in military transport would surely look like a national police force. Troops untrained in law enforcement, deployed on temporary duty, may look and sound good to the president and politicians, but are not a practical solution to inner city crime. If the president wants to permanently hinder crime, he should look at what Gov. Reeves and the legislature have done in our capital city. The Capitol Police, funded and operated by the state, are having notable, lasting impacts on crime in Jackson. These are not temporary troops, but well-paid, well-trained law enforcement officers. Perhaps the governor should be sending that message to Washington, not troops. “The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps” – Proverbs 14:15. Crawford is the author of A Republican’s Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives.
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From what I’ve seen lately, current law enforcement isn’t trained in law enforcement.
National Guard doesn’t need to have law enforcement training. They just need to be present with live ammo and ready to engage and return fire with automatic weapons when the violent thugs open fire.
The key is to examine those that are at least trying to do something versus those that want the ever decaying status quo to continue at the expense of the citizens. At this point, cities like Memphis and Jackson are in a full out “code blue” with nearly all systems in failure. The cities/patients must be stabilized first and foremost if, and that’s a big if, they can be rehabilitated.
As it stands now, the cities have hemorrhaged just about everyone that could afford and still had the personal agency to get out evacuating. The unfortunate remaining are basically in a queue waiting to be victims of out of control criminals. All the while, the business infrastructure is collapsing and disappearing around them. Good people and families are not only worried about walking down to the corner store, they are worried about stray bullets tearing through their house or all out violence in a restaurant due trivial things like the wrong sauce with their wings. Every attempt to do something, anything,
Is thwarted by the funding grifters and race baiters. Most people do not like the idea or optics of bringing in national guard members to stabilize the cities, no more than families like see their loved ones having their hearts shocked or chest cracked open. Traumatic situations aren’t pretty by definition. Sometimes it is the only way to save someone, some city, that you know is worth saving. Is there another plan? Can it be put into effect immediately? When can citizens realize positive results of a plan? Look at how they attacked the capitol police plan. Families need actions and results now - Jackson barely has a pulse and Memphis is just slightly better off, as at least it has an economic base. I’m all ears if someone has a plan, particularly a plan that immediately offers results.
New headline...."Democrat Elected Officials Not Trained in Common Sense"
if mr crawford is worried about untrained people posing as law enforcement he doesn't have to go any further than right out to the reservoir patrol.
dont take my word for it.
ask anyone with rankin county sheriffs dept.
Why not send military police units rather than an infantry unit. Don’t military police officers have some training in being the police?
It's symbolic. Political theater. It makes the statement that these cities are out of control. It's not a solution and should not be understood that way. It serves it's purpose.
Bill Crawford isn't trained in government either, yet here he is.
The ghettos in this country more resemble the war zones of Fallujah, Kabul, and Damascus, than American cities. The US Military has plenty of experience with war zones.
Put up checkpoints everywhere. Have 8-12 heavily armed and armored National Guard supporting 2 police officers. It allows the police to be stretched a lot more thin while having enough backup that “flash mobs” can’t overwhelm them.
Same for border security. The National guard presence allows fewer border patrol to do more and have armed backup.
This truly is simple stuff to comprehend. Bill is just a RINO and simply repeats the Democrat's talking points each week.
Bring bulldozers. Dont stop until the entire dilapidated city infrastructure is demolished.
Our cities cannot be saved by local governments that are put in place by the voters that resist law and order. The only option left is to take law enforcement away from localities and have it taken over by the federal government. Even this may not work, but it is the only remaining option for our cities.
Methinks the writer forgets that calling out the national guard occurs to preserve and restore peace. Does he think JFK was wrong to call out the guard to Ole Miss in 1962 or the LA riots? If C.C. and Memphis do not need the guard, in the author's opinion, when pray tell would the guard be required?
RMQ
Senility must be taking Crawford's intellect, not that he had much intellect to take. Has he forgotten the home mission of the National Guard after 9/11? They policed every airport in the country until the TSA was established. Just because Crawford is totally inept doesn't mean our home front protectors are. Don't go away mad, Crawford, just take your RINO self on.
Crawford is clueless, tone deaf, and irrelevant. He may as well join the democrats because he has no place in the modern right.
Bill
Do you deny their mere presence serves to reduce crime?
You say they are not trained in law enforcement. Of course not, they are trained to assist when "regular" law enforcement cannot control lawlessness. What you call "law enforcement" is why we have these problems now. Today's law enforcement is not enforcement, just a slap on the hand. There has never been a time in this country more lawless than now. If the National Guard is sent in, then there will be enforcement of law, not social hand-holding.
These guys are having blast in DC. The food is good, the sights are great , picking trash at the armory of picking on the mall. It’s still picking trash. That’s what most of them are doing.
Stop And Frisk Efficiently (SAFE), whether local cops or Nat'l Guard, can recover illegal weapons and criminals.
Jxn Mayor Horhn just wants the Federal money, not the troops. But Jxn has reckless abandon pertaining to money management. Only Ashby Foote has shown financial responsibility on Jxn governance Horhn has a long wrong track record to correct before the Feds can trust Jxn with money.
Captain Obvious with another inane column.
Is Crawford retarded or does he actually be what he writes?
The National Guard is a visual deterrent. Like a rent-a-cap at a gas station.
Funny how the new new mayor doesn’t want any actual federal help, just federal money so he can waste it on incompetent people in his administration.
10:29: I laughed out loud when I read your comment.
While I don’t disagree with you about the actual abilities and amateurism of the Rez Patrol, using the guys over at the Good Squad as a reference sure doesn’t say much.
Both organizations are lame.
and Billy you are not trained to evaluate the Guard or any law enforcement.
They are not just picking up trash. They are also raking laws and mulching flower beds. Some beds get pine straw and others get pine bark.
Seems to be working pretty well. Sometimes a show of real force is all you need to enforce "peace through strength"....then you just mop up the idiots who want to die.
Why DOES Kingfish post his crap?
Wow! A Bill Crawford article that literally CRITICIZES REPUBLICANS FOR SAVING LIVES. A new low, and that’s a hard accomplishment for Bill.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we knew and could tell the people that are alive today due the “return law and order to our nation’s capital,” that they were the ones that had their lives saved?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back to April 6, 2020 and “return law and order” to Democrat controlled for decades Jackson, MS, so that the TWO INNOCENT CHILDREN KILLED IN TEN DAYS, including 5-year-old Queenyana Davis (who only was inside of an apartment when bullets sprayed into her home) WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could go back to July 4, 2020, and Democrat Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her Democrat controlled for decades City of Atlanta had, instead of purposely being "negligent in their duties by failing to remove armed vigilantes,” instead, used the “law and order” Democrats hate so very much, so that innocent 8-YEAR-OLD SECORIEA TURNER WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY?
DEMOCRATS, especially the WHITE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS Malcom X warned us about, ARE SO EVIL, that they no longer even try to hide their love and purposeful use of violent crime to take (via flight) and keep control of cities like Jackson and the nation’s Capital forever, with the dead innocent children, as just collateral damage to them.
BILL, be advised, we conservatives will NEVER succumb to you and your Democrat partners use of lawlessness crime and the perversion of children. So, you had better figure something else out besides the use of “influencing IDIOT SHEEP” via your HATE OF CONSERVATIVES like Trump and Reeves ARTICLES.
Ah; it might be due to mathematics. By the way, WTF do you think these men and women ARE trained in? Standing by for your smart-ass answer, Sarge.
I saw that too, just give us the money and nothing changes. People need to really think about who they vote for. Democrats answer to every issue is more money. You have to do something different if you want to change something
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