Sending In The National Guard To Cities Is Playing With Fire
While President Trump is getting well deserved plaudits for sending in the National Guard to help police the streets in Washington DC, we need to realize that this is a high risk strategy. These brave men and women in the National Guard are not trained cops and, when confronted with fraught and dangerous urban problems, there is a significant risk of over-reaction.
We do not want another George Floyd or Rodney King situation on our hands.
And there is a much better way to control urban crime. The problem stems from overly lenient left-wing policies that have crippled urban police departments and tied their hands.
No cash bail policies have proliferated and discouraged police who are reluctant to make arrests when the suspects are released even before the bookings are processed.
DOT Secretary Sean Duffy has shown the way to end such crazy policies. This year, criticizing New York City’s subway system, he threatened to withhold federal funds until the MTA does more to keep the subways safe.
The Federal Department of Transportation (DOT) awarded $2.9 billion in Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grants to over 1,600 communities from FY22-FY24, and approximately $1.5 billion in May 2025 for city buses.
Duffy should demand the end of no cash bail and other left-wing policies as a pre-condition of the federal grants.
We don’t need to run the political and social risks of sending National Guard troops to do urban policing. Why take the political risk of incidents of violence that can and would be exploited by the left to promote its narrative of federal overreach and Trumpian dictatorship?
Now, as Trump considers using the national guard to police the streets of Baltimore, Chicago, and New York, let’s not give the left fuel for its fire. Use cutoffs of federal aid to make urban policing more effective.
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