USI professor discusses impacts of sending troops to U.S. cities

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) - Doctor Nick LaRowe is a political science professor at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). He says if he's learned anything about politics, it is that you never fully know what might happen next. That includes the deployment of U.S. troops to U.S. cities, the topic of our two-part interview.

It is a topic topping national headlines after President Donald Trump suggests sending National Guard troops to Chicago following deployments to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The President says it is to address crime. Doctor LaRowe says it is likely an intentional strategy.

"I'm not a pundit," says Dr. LaRowe, "but there's been a long-standing trend of the Republican party being more trusted on crime than the Democratic party, and so what I'm thinking here is probab