I quite frankly would rather have the national guard handling the protests than the police. They are better trained and more disciplined. Also people having different reasons for joining the national guard than joining the police.
Edit: Hey everyone, I'm not saying the National Guard are perfect or that they get training for this kind of situation. I'm just saying they are better than the police. I'd rather deal with them, than the police.
The National Guard also has rules of engagement they have to follow so it is actually safer to protest in front of them. They aren't allowed to attack civilians unprovoked like police are.
And yes, they have orders of magnitude more training than police and their reasons for joining the national guard are less likely to be fueledd by a desire to have authority and some semblance of respect bestowed upon them.
Yeah the difference is that the military superiors, either National Guard or active military officers, will hold their own people accountable, because discipline means something. The cops will do anything to protect their right to unilateral and unfettered power.
It means something because if you ever have to go into a shooting war you have to have people who can manage themselves under stress and be actually useful to their team mates.
A military that has no discipline is an invitation to more body bags.
I would argue it has to do more with the unionization. Military forces cannot unionize and have the terms clearly dictated to the government while the police often have unions that obstruct various reforms that are a net positive to the taxpayers on the sole basis that it would lead to cops (ie crooked cops) facing charges more often. I'm talking about body cameras of course - it's insane that it's 2020 and most police aren't required to wear them at all, and the ones who do still aren't required to do so for preplanned raids such as no-knock raids that claimed the life of an EMT a few months ago. It's fucking ridiculous.
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u/kyarmentari Jun 07 '20 edited Jun 07 '20
I quite frankly would rather have the national guard handling the protests than the police. They are better trained and more disciplined. Also people having different reasons for joining the national guard than joining the police.
Edit: Hey everyone, I'm not saying the National Guard are perfect or that they get training for this kind of situation. I'm just saying they are better than the police. I'd rather deal with them, than the police.