Historical Military Orders In Place- Garden Plot

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Operation Garden Plot JTF-LAJoint Task Force Los Angeles

Garden Plot is the generic Operations Plan [OPLAN] for military support related to domestic civil disturbances.

On the afternoon of 29 April 1992, the worst civil unrest since the riots of the 1960's erupted in the streets of Los Angeles. Forty-four people died, and hundreds of injuries occurred before order was restored. Property damage reached the billion-dollar mark because of rampaging looters and the thousands of fires that they set. The LA riots of 1992 were unquestionably the most costly civil disturbance in US history.

At 2230 on 29 April 1992, as part of the response to this disorder, the 3d Battalion, 160th Infantry (Mechanized), 40th Infantry Division, California National Guard, was ordered to mobilize. Between 2100 and 2400 the following day, all 3d Battalion companies deployed to their assigned areas. It was the first tactical battalion to be mobilized, the first to deploy to the streets of LA, and the last to redeploy.

Joint Task Force Los Angeles (JTF-LA) was formed following a Presidential Executive Order on the evening of 1 May. The Executive Order federalized units of the California National Guard (CAARNG) and authorized active military forces to assist in the restoration of law and order. JTF-LA formed and deployed within twenty-four hours, assembled from US Army and Marine forces. It operated in a unique domestic disturbance environment, while working with city, county, state, federal agencies and the CAARNG.

In Operation Garden Plot, military forces established intelligence exchange with suburban police departments, local city command posts, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the LAPD emergency operations center, the city command center, the sheriffs office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. During Operation Garden Plot, units used a variety of government-owned, off-the-shelf purchased, and personally owned equipment to effectively conduct operations. Additional communications equipment included such things as cellular phones, faxsimile machines, and police scanners.

-- XXXX (See@Four.Eye), November 04, 1999

Answers

Why are people so afraid of this?.

Remember watching live coverage of the looting as it spread north?.

The minute these troops showed up the lawlessness stopped. Without this operation we would have seen it spread all along the coast.

The local police were totally helpless.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), November 04, 1999.


"Government, like fire, is a useful servant and a fearsome master."

To make things a little clearer, read the federalist papers and pay atention to the reasons for the system of checks and balances and article 2 of the Bill of Rights.

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.not), November 04, 1999.


hey i was there , i was at Ft Irwin in CA when this happend , they pulled us out of the field and had us staged to move in to LA to assist 3rd/70th armor(M1A1's)as well as most of the 5th inf div was there , so any one who says that the regular army cant be called in to something like that is realy not looking at the past .

BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!! check it out for you self

MONGO, B co 3rd/70th "BATTLEMASTER 6"

-- MONGO (mongo2@prodigy.net), November 04, 1999.


Holy Molely, eyes open, motor running, praying feets don't fail me now. Seriously, there is need for some kind of control and reason. A group of people out of control are dangerous. What would you have the government do????

-- Eyes open, motor running, etc. (ejjones@flash.net), November 04, 1999.

Perhaps a contigency plan to bring in National Guard and other police units. The NG units would have to have proper equipment and training for riot control of course. But the gist of the idea would be to make the command struture more accountable to the people being controled. At the state level in this case, in the office of the governor.

We also could consider a state wide riot control unit pulled from state police or even volunteers. Again, it keeps it all at the state level.

It's not the equipment I have a problem with. It's accountability.

But I am in no rush to cross the Posse Comit-whatever line.

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.not), November 04, 1999.



Hasn't the gov federalized some National Guard and Reserves to back- up the National Guard who serve on the state level? Reasoning being that "we" know our National Guard...they are from our own neighborhoods and we wouldn't mind them being seen in our streets?

-- Meandu (Beenreading@home.sit), November 04, 1999.

Yup. The feds can nationalize the national guard. Happens all the time.

Keep your...

-- eyes_open (best@wishes.not), November 05, 1999.


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