{"id":18823,"date":"2010-04-26T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18823"},"modified":"2010-04-26T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:12:36","slug":"pols-want-ng-troops-patrolling-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18823","title":{"rendered":"Pols want NG troops patrolling Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_CHICAGO_CRIME_NATIONAL_GUARD?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press and Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> report that Chicago politicians are pleading for National Guard troops to bring down the crime rate. Their reasoning is that an equal number of Americans have been killed in Afghanastan and Chicago so far this year. Yeah, that makes sense. Not. <\/p>\n<p>I can imagine the hoopla once an un-armed Guardsman gets popped by a street thug who has no rules of engagement. Or the reverse- a Guardsman shoots a thug in self defense.<\/p>\n<p>National Guardsmen, generally speaking, are not trained in police operations, nor should they be. Guard duty in the military is basically walking around looking mean with an empty magazine in your weapon. That might work in the daytime on Chicago streets, but I figure nights are little different.<\/p>\n<p>There are more 13,000 sworn officers in the employ of the Chicago PD, that&#8217;s the size of an infantry brigade. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois_Army_National_Guard\">Wikipedia<\/a>, there are 9700 Illinois National Guardsmen. If even half of them are MPs or combat arms troops (the usual ratio of combat arms troops to their support troops is 1:7), they&#8217;re not much of a reinforcement especially if you consider the time and effort it would take to train them. <\/p>\n<p>Funny how you can apply Kipling to civilians and their view of the troops today; <em>For it&#8217;s Tommy this, an&#8217; Tommy that, an&#8217; &#8220;Chuck him out, the brute!&#8221;<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s &#8220;Saviour of &#8216;is country&#8221; when the guns begin to shoot&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press and Stars &#038; Stripes report that Chicago politicians are pleading for National Guard &hellip; <a title=\"Pols want NG troops patrolling Chicago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18823\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pols want NG troops patrolling Chicago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}