CHICAGO — President Donald Trump has not sent National Guard troops to Chicago — and doesn’t appear to be planning on doing so anytime soon. But that hasn’t stopped him from spending weeks inaccurately painting the city as crime-infested as justification.

Declarations by the president that Chicago is the “murder capital of the world” do not hold up to fact-checks showing dozens of other cities with far higher murder rates or law enforcement data that’s charted an ongoing drop in violent crime in the city.

Yet Trump’s repeated insinuations have ignited fresh discord over how often crimes are happening in Chicago and how they are being counted.

Mayor Brandon Johnson tried to rebut the president’s claims last month via a fact sheet emphasizing dips this year in homicides and overall violen

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