“He is provoking on sending federal troops, the National Guard, into cities to plunder them, though those entities do not have policing power,” Johnson said. Overwhelmingly, however, people opposed President Trump’s takeover of the city with federal agents and National Guard troops. Crime is down in the cities Trump mentionedMilitary vehicles with the Washington, D.C. National Guard park near D.C.’s Washington Monument on Tuesday, after Trump mobilized the guard and took control of the local police. “But it won’t be because there’s a spike in crime.”The mayors of the other cities on Trump’s list say their crime rates have dropped as well. Adams in New York says what’s needed is federal gun control legislation, not National Guard intervention.