Letter to the Editor: We don’t need military occupation. We need poverty eradication.
National Guardsmen and Memphis Police patrol downtown around the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid and Riverside Drive on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
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“That jail was already overcrowded; today it holds 800 people over capacity. Incarceration is not the solution.”
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