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So what's the deal with the National Guard deployments? I've seen a lot of reporting around whether the cities want the Guard, whether Trump will deploy the Guard, whether the courts will force Trump to pull the Guard out, etc.

But I haven't seen much reporting on the impact that Guard is having where it is deployed. Is crime down, even anecdotally? Are the streets safer? Have National Guardsman shot or beat up or detained anyone?

Was it a good idea? What are the early results?

I heard it worked in DC, and as I understand it also quelled LA riots pretty quickly (though we always have the possibility they'd have ended the same without the Guard deployment). In general, such things serve multiple functions: showing the ne'er-do-wells that the Law is serious now and the free ride is at least temporarily over, which makes the opportunists among them to either lay low or move on to other places/things, showing the local police that if they aren't doing their jobs, their jobs will be done for them, which makes the city admin more open to the idea to actually instruct the police to do their job, showing the random normies things are happening in the most perceivable and obvious way - you literally see those guys on the street. And the thugs see them too, so they aren't likely to rob a grocery store right in front of them. Of course, the idea is that once the quiet is established, the local police will take over in maintaining this quiet - which if the local police is not willing to (or the local government does not intend to let them) makes it only a temporary measure. But the local politicians do not want to establish a pattern "with Trump - quiet, without Trump - mayhem" in the minds of their electorate, so they would be at least somewhat incentivized for maintain the quiet, once established, for a while.

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