In mid-September, U.S. Rep. Max Miller of Bay Village published an op-ed in The Washington Times entitled “ Bring the National Guard to Cleveland .” It was subtitled, “Americans deserve to live without fear.” Miller offered a grim view of violent crime in Cleveland, arguing that, “My constituents in the suburbs are afraid to go into the city” — a viewpoint that prompted pushback from some of Miller’s constituents in the suburbs.

Still, not everyone in Cleveland sees a National Guard deployment as meritless in a city with a police-staffing problem and plenty of gun violence. Ward 5 Cleveland City Councilman Richard A. Starr has said he’d welcome the National Guard if it could help reduce violence in the neighborhoods he represents where crime guns are easily acquired and shoot-outs com

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