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Deployments Will Not Lower Crime Rates In Cities

Aug. 25, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: National guardsmen are patrolling the streets of our nation’s capital while President Trump threatens to launch similar “emergency” invasions of Chicago, New York and other cities governed by Democrats. Parading up and down the national Mall in military garb, helping ICE agents harass undocumented residents, and tearing down homeless encampments will not lower the D.C. crime rate.

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