Residents of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods need investment in their well-being, not humvees patrolling them like a military occupation, writes Chicago city council member Rossana Rodriguez.

Under threats of deploying federal agents to intensify immigration enforcement in communities across Chicago, including my own, our neighbors are beginning to prepare a coordinated response to the possibility of Donald Trump sending the National Guard to occupy our streets and neighborhoods to assist and protect federal agents. His threat is a hollow performance of power — one that betrays the values of a democratic society and undermines the very progress Chicago has built around public safety and human dignity for its residents in recent years. Safety does not grow from the barrel of a gun but

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