Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday criticized President Donald Trump's suggestion that Chicago will be the next target of his efforts to crack down on crime by sending in the National Guard, saying troops on the streets would not help the city fight crime.

President Donald Trump threatened to send more troops to other cities that he claimed were being overrun with crime as he continues the deployments in Washington, D.C.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) slammed President Trump over possibly sending the national guard to Chicago after his D.C. crime crackdown, calling the president’s plans to target the

President Donald Trump last week declared a “crime emergency” in the District of Columbia, which gave his administration power to direct the use of local police resources and to call in the National Guard. A number of Republican governors subsequently have announced they’re sending hundreds of Guard troops under their jurisdiction to D.C.

In New Mexico’s most populous city, National Guard troops are listening to the police dispatch calls, monitoring traffic cameras and helping to secure crime scene perimeters, tasks not usually part of the job.

Nearly 2,000 National Guard troops have now been deployed to join President Donald Trump's crackdown on Washington, DC.