US EditionChicago mayor calls National Guard the ‘wrong solution’
Mayor Johnson highlights Chicago's lowest homicide rate since the 1960s and promotes policing and prevention strategies over federal troop deployment.
- On Monday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wrote that `Sending in the National Guard is the wrong solution to a real problem`, citing Chicago's lowest summer homicide rate since the 1960s as proof.
- Trump has repeatedly threatened to send federal troops to cities including Chicago as part of a crime crackdown, while a federal judge ruled last week the administration willfully broke the nearly 150-year-old Posse Comitatus Act with prior National Guard deployment.
- Johnson highlighted local measures including the city robbery task force and violence interrupter programs, pursuing law-abiding policing and social services to address root causes amid record-low summer homicides since the 1960s.
- It remains unclear whether President Donald Trump will deploy the National Guard to Chicago, as a CBS News/YouGov poll found 58% of Americans oppose such deployments while some Democratic officials seek federal aid without militarized troops.
- Experts warn using the National Guard reshapes the military's domestic role amid falling crime, while statistics show 81% view urban crime as a major problem, per the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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