Republican-led states are sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump's crackdown on crime, despite downward trends in the capital's crime rate. NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter Gary Grumbach has more details.

GOP-led states announced they would send their own National Guard troops to augment President Donald Trump’s law enforcement takeover in the nation’s capital, The Washington Post reports. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

The shift comes after defense officials said the soldiers deployed to the capital wouldn’t be armed.

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.

It was the first such action by the Guard since its deployment in Washington.

The Post mapped locations of law enforcement throughout D.C. in the days since Trump’s announcement to deploy the Guard.