COIN comes home to assist policing

[CPT Holzbach]

http://www.examiner.com/a-1423820%7E..._violence.html

This sort of thing works, to an extent, in COIN. In America? Not a chance. And if it does lower crime in certain neighborhoods, why not do it in EVERY neighborhood? Slippery slope, there. I'm thinking the overturning of the DC gun ban (very likely to happen this month), neighborhood watches, and people who don't go along with the "stop snitchin'" mentality would work a whole lot better. This is a fine example of a COIN technique that should NOT come home.

[slapout9]

This is a lot of whooee about nothing. It is a short term project 10 days according to the article and they are only going to control designated areas (most likely private or government property). This is a very old Police technique nothing new here. The was one of the core techniques used in the old Federal Weed and Seed program. The Feds paid the overtime for the police to do just what is talked about in the article and provided funds for other community building projects.... hence Weed the LE part and Seed the building part. Yes it does sound similar to Clear,Hold and Build but it is a lot more focused and the time frames are a lot shorter. This is more about a police chief learning to be a politician than anything else.