Gov. Jeff Landry is taking President Trump’s lead, it’s being reported, and considering the deployment of around 1,000 Louisiana National Guardsmen into Louisiana’s most dangerous cities – among them New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport. This has set the state’s Democrats to clucking, as you might imagine – for example, in Baton Rouge we got this…

Some Baton Rouge councilmembers oppose the possible deployment of National Guard troops to the city, and are urging Mayor-President Sid Edwards to take another route to reduce crime.

In a joint release Tuesday, councilmembers argued that Gov. Jeff Landry’s Monday request is a form of government overreach, claiming that the action would threaten civil liberties and divert resources from long-term solutions.

It is unclear when troops would be in Baton Rouge. Landry’s letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth mentioned Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and New Orleans.

“We are calling on Mayor Sid Edwards to reject this request,” Councilman Cleve Dunn Jr. said. Councilmembers said the mayor can choose between militarization and community investment to address crime in Baton Rouge.

Edwards said in a statement that if the National Guard were to be in Baton Rouge, he would make sure they operate as support “rather than a replacement for our local police officers.” Dunn said National Guard troops aren’t equipped for community policing and de-escalation.

“Their presence would escalate tensions and deepen mistrust, particularly in marginalized communities. Safety comes from partnership and trust, not from occupation,” Dunn said.

Councilmembers also raised concerns about costs for Baton Rouge, citing a $50 million budget deficit. Councilwoman Twahna P. Harris specifically noted constitutional concerns.

The four members of the Baton Rouge Metro Council screeching about the prospective LANG deployment are Dunn, Harris, Anthony Kenney and Carolyn Coleman. They’re all black Democrats, and they all represent districts that are utterly covered in criminals.

I’m just going to say two things – one of which is obvious, and the other which is also obvious but I’m probably not allowed to say it and I’m going to say it anyway.

First, if you want to consider what a National Guard deployment into these cities will constructively do, think of this as a training mission.

The majority of the National Guardsmen tend to be younger males, as in college-aged kids many of whom are using that weekend-warrior money to help put themselves through LSU or ULL or Louisiana Tech or some other university or community college. A lot of those kids are tough young patriots who want to help their communities while getting ahead.

And – surprise! – that’s exactly what we’re looking for in the cops we recruit.

Let’s not forget Jeff Landry’s background. He was in the LANG while he was putting himself through college, and they had him training to be a military policeman. Landry then spent some time as a St. Martin Parish sheriff’s deputy.

So when he deploys the Louisiana National Guard, first to DC as part of Trump’s effort to clean up that crime-ridden hellhole and now to our own crime-ridden hellholes, don’t think it’s lost on Landry that those Guardsmen being deployed as boots on the ground against some of the worst villains our state has to offer in neighborhoods which probably do need some semblance of pacification by military occupation might be getting some training in law enforcement methods.

The biggest issue confronting our cities is that we don’t have enough cops on the job. Louisiana’s local police forces in the cities with big crime problems – New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, and Monroe being the most problematic – all have major problems with understaffing. Landry set up Troop NOLA in New Orleans, which is a surge of Louisiana State Police troopers into the city to supplement the NOPD, but the problem there is that the LSP is itself understaffed by close to 300 officers. They’re doing amazing work and they have managed to cut crime some in New Orleans, but there’s a manpower problem.

And in these cities, it’s a hard problem to fix.

For example, in New Orleans, you really don’t want to be a cop. Being an NOPD cop means you’re saddled with highly uninspiring woke leadership inside the force and among the political class, the money isn’t awesome, the rules of engagement are worse thanks to the stupid consent decree Mitch Landrieu made with Eric Holder some 15 years ago, and the suburban parishes are always hiring.

As an NOPD cop you’re always thinking you’re going to get shot and nobody is going to come to your aid. As soon as you can get the job you’ll bounce to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, for example, where there’s more support, the pay is at least as good and the conditions are better.

Bring in the National Guard and at least the NOPD isn’t as outmanned. It’s not as hopeless. Morale might improve. It’s not that the LANG is a bunch of Robocops who’ll do the work for the NOPD, but they can at least man some posts and control some street corners to give breathing room for the NOPD and Troop NOLA to operate.

And along the way train up some LANG kids who might consider law enforcement as a career.

All of that is obvious and given Landry’s background it isn’t hard to realize he’s seeing the opportunity in this vein.

But the second thing which is also obvious, and I’m singling out the four sleazy Metro Council people in Baton Rouge simply because they were featured in that WVLA-TV story above but there are others just like them in New Orleans and Shreveport, is that the Democrats, and particularly black Democrats, in urban areas are demonstrably pro-criminal.

That’s going to make some of these leftists out there absolutely screech, and they’re going to accuse me of racism for saying it, but I really don’t care. It’s too obvious not to say, and given where we are in this country I’d rather be a truth-teller the liars call a racist than to keep silent and let the lies continue.

Urban Democrat politicians in America, which in Louisiana chiefly means black Democrat politicians, are for criminals and not the law-abiding. They’re in league with the gangsters, the drug dealers, the street criminals, the hookers and the junkies who are turning our cities into unlivable hellholes.

If you represent a city council district with a murder rate that rivals Johnannesburg or Guatemala City, don’t you think you’d be cheering for an army to come in and pacify the streets if you actually gave a damn about the people you represent? The tradition is that the people of the town, set upon by the marauders in their midst, hire up the Magnificent Seven to come in and regulate the place.

Instead, Cleve Dunn bitches about “escalating tensions” and “deepening mistrust.”

Really?

Escalating tensions from whom? The gangbangers pissed off that they have a tougher time of wasting each other because some Guardsmen took up occupancy on the street corner they normally sling rock?

Cleve Dunn is basically telling you he represents those gangbangers and not the law-abiding citizens in his district who cower every night behind iron-barred windows and can’t keep anything nice in their houses for fear the junkies will come and ransack their places. He doesn’t give a fig for your problems if you’re one of the latter folks.

He wants to spread the fiction that Landry is going to deploy a bunch of neo-Nazi rednecks from Tangipahoa or Vernon Parish to North Baton Rouge where they’re going to go house to house taking all the honor students from the local high schools to work camps. Or something. It’s utterly and totally absurd.

In DC, the locals – at least the locals in black neighborhoods where suddenly there weren’t shootings every night – were ecstatic when Trump sent an army onto the streets to provide security. The white leftists from safe neighborhoods acted like asses, but that was quickly identified for the political posturing that it was.

Why wouldn’t the put-upon people of North Baton Rouge, or New Orleans East, rejoice in the same way?

We all know they would.

But the politicians don’t want it. They don’t want it because they know that boots on the ground which occupy and control territory can pacify that territory and make crime a far less desirable occupation. And places criminals don’t control are vibrant places where kids play outside, new businesses open up, people engage with each other and cooperate, morale improves and quality of life blossoms.

And when those things happen, the people look at their leadership and ask “why did we ever have to live any other way?”

That isn’t a question Cleve Dunn wants to answer. So he’s objecting to the National Guard coming in, just like he’d object to any increased law enforcement presence.

It’s beneath contempt. But it’s modern urban Democrat doctrine. Point it out and they’ll call you names, but that doesn’t make it any less obvious.