All you have to do is utilize the New York City frisk-policy. Then enforce the laws that you have on the books. Yeah, you would antagonize the local population a great deal by putting young black men in jail, but they are the ones killing other young black men, and women. Within six months....you’d start to notice things changing, and within two years...you’d be amazed at the safe nature of Chicago streets.
If the military can’t stabilize Afghanistan why does he think it can stabilize Chicago?
They too are “stuck on stupid”
What about USC Title 10? Posse Comitatus?
Oh, never mind, what the heck am I thinking? This regime doesn't follow any laws.
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And If we were to become a Truly Religious People again, violence would also be curbed.
We can’t use the NG to protect the border because of Posse Comitatus but we can use them to police the streets?
“Retired general says National Guard could help curb Chicago violence”
Can you say ‘third world s^%$ hole’?
Now who’s stuck on stupid?
This type of thinking is WAY to common among the cocktail party DC class generals.
Just how would than be done politically correctly? Would the areas surrounding the ghettos be Occupied and stripped to redistribute their wealth to the ghettos?
Adopt "Shall Issue" CCW, Stand-Your-Ground, and Castle Law,, and see what happens in Chicago.
Actually, if you really want Chicago cleaned up, eliminate welfare entirely, and give welfare recipients (and the thugs who mooch off them) a choice of "work or die".
Rahm doesn’t want his gangland activities interrupted.
Armchair swagger and bravado is not very helpful. I live in Chicago, have done so for 20 years.
It’s not just blacks. Hispanic gangs are every bit as much of the problem.
The root problem is family breakdown. Saturating the city with National Guardsmen is no solution.
The increase in crime and shootings is DIRECTLY related to changes in policing tactics, done to save money.
Rahm Dead Fish Emmanuel owns this mess fair and square. He and his sock puppet chief of police (a stupider man never was born) steadfastly refuse to change tactics and hire the policemen neeeded.
The gang problem requires gumshoe police work, not Rambo-types on every street corner.
Wasn’t there a movie (sort of) about this kind of thing, called “The Siege”? That didn’t end well for the NG General, IIMN.
The people of Chicago don’t want to handle, or pay for, this problem. So, the solution is to bring in the National Guard and let the state or federal government pick up the tab. Figure out how much the National Guard would cost and take that much automatically out of the city budget. See if Chicago will go for that.
SO, more people with guns is the answer?
This “general” is out of the Loop. As if Chicago’s police and commissars would “kill the golden goose”.
Sets a bad precedent; Nastional guard hunts street thugs this month, Tea Party Patriots next.