Gavin Newsom announced he will quadruple the number of California Highway Patrol officer shifts in Oakland and deploy California National Guard prosecutors starting Monday to crack down on organized crime, car theft and trolley shows.
The announcement comes five months after 120 highway patrol officers were sent to Oakland as part of a new police campaign to bolster police presence in the city last year. information on crimes He revealed that violent crimes increased by 21%, robberies by 38%, and vehicle theft by 43%.
Since the beginning of the year there has been widespread crime. has gone down to 33 percent.
“While some positive trends are encouraging, the lawlessness we are seeing on the streets of Oakland is unacceptable,” Newsom said in a statement Thursday. “Leveraging our partnership with local law enforcement, I am deploying a new number of CHP officers to provide the people of Oakland and the East Bay with the safety they deserve.”
It is not unusual for a governor to deploy state officials as reinforcements, especially if local agencies are closed.
In the East Bay, the Highway Patrol has recovered 1,142 stolen vehicles, seized 55 weapons related to the crime and made 562 arrests since February, Newsom’s office announced.
In April, Newsom sent another group of officers to Bakersfield in Kern County, where violent and property crime rates are higher than the state average.
A month later, he said fentanyl seizures in those cities were “unprecedented.”
