CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says President Donald Trump’s push to send the National Guard to Chicago is the wrong answer for fighting crime.

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In an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times , Johnson said Chicagoans "love and defend our city fiercely," and don’t need "an occupation" of armed troops.

He pointed to a record-low homicide rate this summer, the lowest since the 1960s, as evidence that the city’s approach is working.

"Sending in the National Guard is the wrong solution to a real problem," Johnson wrote. "If President Trump had listened to the city’s leaders, he would recognize that Chicago just experienced record-low homicide numbers, making this the safest summer since the 1960s."

Johnson acknowledged that even at lower levels, viole

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