Regarding Tio Hardiman’s op-ed “The president, mayor and governor need to unite to save lives in Chicago” (Sept. 4): The idea that the National Guard’s deployment to Chicago represents “an opportunity for meaningful change” is profoundly misguided. The entrenched causes of violence would not be resolved by the presence of federal personnel patrolling our streets; rather, their presence would exacerbate distrust, restrict civil liberties and intensify the wounds that generations of Chicagoans have already experienced. The history of the city, with Guard deployments during the 1968 demonstrations, the Democratic National Convention and the George Floyd protests, demonstrates a clear pattern: Militarized force amplifies tensions rather than mitigates them.

Indeed, Chicago is confronted wit

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