Gov. Gavin Newsom is turning to the California Highway Patrol to help crack down on crime in some of the state’s biggest cities by assigning them to Crime Suppression Teams that will work hand in hand with local law enforcement.
“When the state and local communities work together strategically, public safety improves,” Newsom said in a statement. “With these new deployments, we’re doubling down on these partnerships to build on progress and keep driving crime down.”
How will the Crime Suppression Teams work?
That new crime-fighting help will soon be headed to Los Angeles and San Bernardino where the CHP will be sending 15-person teams of officers to saturate high-crime areas. They’ll be targeting repeat offenders and search for illegal weapons and drugs.
“We go in and saturate an area with high visibility, in-view patrols,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee. “We’re going to put numbers of black and white patrol cars with officers in uniform in there. It deters criminals.”…