1. There is no accepted wisdom of air support.
2. Car crime going through the roof? What do you do fly over peoples houses and drop immobilisers and vehicle security devices down on the locals?. The biggest deterrent to car thieves is to try and steal vehicles which have factory fitted immobilisers and alarms. As you will have noticed all vehicles less than 10 years old have these fitted and how many are stolen? Very few.
3.If that's the best two arguments you can come up wirh then don't civilianise....get rid.