Just tell them that there is an active al Qaida cell in town and we'll send in the 82nd Airborne.
Interestingly, that is exactly who they sent into my neighborhood after it was wrecked in a cat 5 hurricane. Some days after the storm, elements of the 82nd showed up and camped out on a school athletic field about a block away. Also National Guard troops, in Humvees, with M 16's. They patrolled the entire neighborhood for weeks and set up roadblocks after dark. Most of us were damn happy to have them here.