CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Recently, the safety of downtown Cleveland has been called into question based on an Ohio congressman suggesting it may be time to bring in the National Guard.

In an opinion piece, Congressman Max Miller (Ohio 7th-R), wrote that some of people who elected him don’t feel safe to come from the suburbs to downtown for events.

During Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb’s first three years in office, the city has vastly improved the amount of crime data available to the general public, posted online.

Using the city’s published data, we collected crime statistics for what the city defines as the downtown neighborhood.

That area is basically everything inside of I-90 and the innerbelt, from Burke Lakefront Airport, to the Cuyahoga River.

To be clear, the category of “repor

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