Should cities have the National Guard patrol their streets?

I bring this subject up because today a Milwaukee alderman has called on Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to ask for and allow National Guard military police do patrols in Milwaukee during the summer months. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Quote:> WEDNESDAY, March 14, 2007, 11:11 a.m. By Greg J. Borowski Donovan says city needs National Guard A Milwaukee alderman today called for state National Guard military police officers to be deployed in the city this summer to help quell "an increase in violence and disorder" that has already begun. Ald. Bob Donovan, chairman of the Common Council's Public Safety Committee, sent a letter this morning to Mayor Tom Barrett that calls on the mayor to request 50 to 75 military police officers from the state. The letter also says Barrett should take other steps to get more police officers on the streets, including asking the state to do highway patrols in the city. This would, presumably, free up Milwaukee County Sheriff's deputies to help patrol city streets. In the letter, Donovan criticizes Barrett "for your most unflattering penchant for taking credit for other people's hard work. From surveillance cameras to cops in schools and everything in between relating to public safety, both you and I know not one of these ideas has originated from your office." Nevertheless, Donovan asks Barrett to support eight other initiatives, including creating 10 positions to speed the background checks of police recruits; adding a fourth police recruit class this year; seeking more state aid to pay for police; and adopting a Chicago program that puts desk-duty officers on the street one day a week. Donovan also calls for allowing officers from other departments to transfer to the Milwaukee department, without having to go through the full training of new recruits; and for a moratorium on promoting police officers to higher positions. Those promotions leave openings among street-level officers, Donovan says. He is to discuss the proposal at a news conference this afternoon. >Should cities rely on the National Guard if their police force can't do a good enough job keeping the streets safe? Or should cities allow themselves to become New Orleans after the hurricane if violence can't be controlled?>