Newsom said on Thursday that the additional CHP deployments are in coordination with local officials and law enforcement. His announcement sought to contrast with President Trump's recent deployments of federal troops to Washington, DC, to address crime in the nation's capital, and to Los Angeles to support immigration enforcement, both of which happened over the objection of local officials.
The additional CHP crime suppression teams will be deployed to multiple locations, including Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, San Diego, the Central Valley, and the Inland Empire, where officers will saturate high crime areas, target repeat offenders, and seize weapons and narcotics, the Governor's Office announced.
In 2023, Newsom sent CHP and California National Guard units to San Francisco to help police with the fentanyl trafficking crisis and deployed CHP officers to Oakland following a series of high-profile carjackings and armed robberies. Newsom sent an additional surge of CHP officers to Oakland beginning in February 2024 and increased the number of officers in July 2024 working in Alameda County and in the Solano County city of Vallejo.
"These crime suppression teams will provide critical support to our local partners by focusing on crime where it happens most," said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee in a prepared statement. "By combining resources, intelligence, and personnel, we can better disrupt criminal activity and strengthen the safety and security of communities across California."
Newsom's announcement on Thursday comes days after Mr. Trump's suggestions that San Francisco and Oakland were among the next U.S. cities where the National Guard would be deployed, ostensibly to fight what Trump has characterized as rampant, unchecked crime.
The rate of violent crime in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland was down sharply in 2024, and the trend is continuing this year, according to statistics compiled from each city's police departments. The Governor's Office on Thursday touted crime statistics from the California Department of Justice that indicate crime in the state was down in nearly every category last year, including violent crime and homicides.
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