President Donald Trump's declaration of a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., has again placed military soldiers on the streets of an American city.

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.

Trump administration makes plea to Republican governors: National Guard personnel will be deployed from red states to Washington, D.C., under a deal between President Donald Trump and three Republican governors.

National Guard members and federal law enforcement officers are patrolling the city as part of President Trump's effort to assert federal control over policing in the District.

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

A National Guard artillery brigade has prevented a Russian attempt to carry out an assault on the Kupiansk front. Source: Brigadier General Oleksandr Pivnenko, Commander of the National Guard; a video posted by the Separate Artillery Brigade of the National Guard Details: The artillerymen reported that the events unfolded on 16 August.

ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviews Sen. Chris Van Hollen on “This Week" over President Trump deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C.

The trial over President Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer reached its third and final day Wednesday.