{"id":73851,"date":"2017-08-07T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73851"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:11:25","slug":"republican-governors-plug-law-enforcement-gaps-in-democrat-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73851","title":{"rendered":"Republican governors plug law enforcement gaps in Democrat cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in his presidency, Donald Trump threatened to use federal assets to pacify American cities awash in criminal violence. The Washington Post<\/a> reports that some Republican governors are getting ahead of the issue with state law enforcement assets. Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and South Carolina Republican governors are responding to the scourge;<\/p>\n

St. Louis has recorded more than 110 homicides so far this year, which, as of late July, put 2017 on pace to be the city\u2019s deadliest year in more than two decades. The trends have been similar in big cities from Baltimore and Nashville to Tulsa and Little Rock, and in response, governors are reviving a role many had embraced from the 1960s through the early 1990s but pulled back from as homicide rates declined.<\/p>\n

Last month, after 25 people were shot in a nightclub not far from the governor\u2019s mansion in Little Rock, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson organized state troopers and FBI agents to respond to \u201ca looming cloud of violence\u201d in that city.<\/p>\n

In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott pledged in spring to use \u201call lawful means\u201d to snuff out what he called a serious \u201cgang problem\u201d in Houston, the state\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

In South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster even used warlike language when announcing his plan for more state resources in Myrtle Beach, where homicides in June threatened the city\u2019s reputation as a family-friendly beach destination.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a lot more boots on the ground,\u201d McMaster said in deploying state troopers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Missouri state troopers are patrolling St Louis;<\/p>\n

\u201cTraffic enforcement is a good tool in finding criminals,\u201d said [Missouri State Trooper Brad] Sevier, who had been assigned to Perry County in Missouri\u2019s southern river delta. \u201cThat lady was wanted for expired registration but it just as easily could have been a murder warrant or a robbery warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the first 11 days of the state patrols on about 16 miles of interstate highways that had been only lightly patrolled before, troopers issued more than 900 traffic tickets and made 220 arrests, according to Missouri Highway Patrol data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Missouri Governor Eric Greitens’ wife was robbed in St Louis shortly after he took office. His campaign ads promised to “take back Missouri”.<\/p>\n