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Governor Gavin Newsom, flanked by law enforcement, announced in today’s press conference that he will be introducing new and expanded crime-fighting efforts by increasing law enforcement teams and operations throughout the state to fight crime in cooperating cities, counties, and the southern border.
Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Bakersfield were specifically mentioned in his comments, noting that the state will increase their efforts that “began with the Biden administration.”
Teams of 15 personnel, including canine teams, will be mobilized throughout Los Angeles, San Diego and other parts of central valley–three new areas added to the “Public Safety Plan” initiated in 2o19, Newsom said.
Newsom said he will expand the “efforts in place since 2019 and accelerated in 2023,” in coordination with local and federal law enforcement agencies.
In 2019, no formal public safety plan was drafted. Instead, Newsom and law enforcement agencies focused on a variety of public safety issues which included highway safety, fire mitigation, and utility failures.
In 2021, Newsom officially announced a broader, more comprehensive plan named the “Real Public Safety Plan” that focused on “new investments that will bolster local law enforcement response, ensure prosecutors hold perpetrators accountable and get guns and drugs off our streets.”
One official noted that Californians should be feeling the impact of the Real Public Safety Plan, citing that violent crime is down 4.9 percent and property crime is down 8.5 percent in 2024.
Newsom admitted, “We have a lot more work to do…We think we can do better and not defend the status quo.”
When asked by a reporter if this surge is response to President Donald Trump deploying the national guard in LA, with promises of expanding the guard to other cities, Newsom maintained that his administration has been focused on fighting crime for years, hosting 10 press conferences over the last few years in order to provide Californian’s with weekly updates.
Newsom then mentioned the state’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard that is awaiting a final decision from District Court Justice Charles Breyer after the 9th circuit sided granted a stay of Breyer’s prior decision.
“The consequences of that decision will be profound,” Newsom exclaimed.
During the presser, Newsom continued to attack the president and his administration personally, referring to Trump as having “authoritarian impulses.”
“He is doing things to people, not with people. He is de facto militarizing american cities,” Newsom claimed.
“Is this America? Are we losing our grip with realty? People that don’t look like me fear they are being racially profiled. Authoritarian tendencies and actions of this president cannot be normalized. We are putting a mirror up to the lunacy of this president,” the governor said.
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Author: Megan Barth
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