Newsom Announces Increase In Calif. Highway Patrol Officers To ‘Inhibit Retail Crime’ During Holidays

[1LoverofGod]

A recent mandate from Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom directed the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to better support countermeasures against a rise in retail crime during the Christmas season.

As part of his “Real Public Safety Plan,” Newsom (D-Calif.) stated that the CHP’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force and a “stronger law enforcement presence” will be stationed in “key retail districts” across the state.

The governor stressed that anyone who steals merchandise from retailers this holiday season must be apprehended immediately and put in jail, which came as a surprise since Newsom is known to be much softer on crime than other governors across the U.S.

The press statement also comes after consistent criticism from California residents and business owners, who argue that the enforcement of retail crime has become obsolete in recent years.

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[1LoverofGod]

Well Well Well

The evident need for increased lawlessness enforcement is being realized after The Governor had signed for the lax prosecutions of "misdemeanors" imposed by the Democrat controlled Legislators who pretty much gave criminals the green light to go on crime sprees that increased the "smash n grab" practice of theft in retail stores and now they don't even smash n grab, they just walz into the stores and walk out with calculators in hand as they can steal so long as kept under $1000.00 and not face prosecution.

Thank you Proposition 47.


Good "luck" law enforcement officers.

Prop. 47:

How to Reduce a Felony to a Misdemeanor under Proposition 47

On November 5, 2014, California voters passed Proposition 47, the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.”1 This initiative reduces the penalties for certain theft crimes and drug crimes in California.2 Specifically, Proposition 47 takes several crimes that were previously felonies or wobblers in...

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[Ghoti Ichthus]

Sounds like gov is trying centralize/consolidate law enforcement at the state level, and hence control it, and then be able to (ab)use it to punish and reward areas for PC

 

[Tall Timbers]

Sounds like gov is trying centralize/consolidate law enforcement at the state level, and hence control it, and then be able to (ab)use it to punish and reward areas for PC

That's exactly what my thought were when I saw this article. CHP traditionally policed the highways and freeways. A lot of perps with arrest warrants are caught when pulled over for some thing or other. Often those perps are turned over to local law enforcement. This looks to me to be exactly what you're intimating.

 

[Andy C]

That's exactly what my thought were when I saw this article. CHP traditionally policed the highways and freeways. A lot of perps with arrest warrants are caught when pulled over for some thing or other. Often those perps are turned over to local law enforcement. This looks to me to be exactly what you're intimating.

Agree, moving resources away from where they are most needed is bad policy. I would criticize CA, but my state in many cases, is even crazier.

I need to find another state that has comparable weather to where we live in Oregon.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I need to find another state that has comparable weather to where we live in Oregon.

Cheyenne has a little more winter than the Willamette Valley does, but is very, very pleasant most of the year.

 

[Andy C]

Cheyenne has a little more winter than the Willamette Valley does, but is very, very pleasant most of the year.

Very funny. Only someone who lived decades in Alaska would think Cheyenne has pleasant weather. I really liked my time there in a few visits during the summer, but the rest of the year, no thanks, Im a fair weather person.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Very funny. Only someone who lived decades in Alaska would think Cheyenne has pleasant weather. I really liked my time there in a few visits during the summer, but the rest of the year, no thanks, Im a fair weather person.

Truly, most of the year is very nice. Dec-Feb can be daunting for anyone who hasn't lived in the arctic, but even then it often warms up into the 40s and 50s.

 

[Andy C]

Truly, most of the year is very nice. Dec-Feb can be daunting for anyone who hasn't lived in the arctic, but even then it often warms up into the 40s and 50s.

Again, spoken from a man who lived decades in the coldest US city.

If my wife did not have a medical condition that is affected by heat, and cold air, Cheyenne would be something I would consider, but I would have to learn to live with the high winds.

Politically, you cant live in a more secure Republican stronghold than Wyoming!

 

[Tall Timbers]

Politically, you cant live in a more secure Republican stronghold than Wyoming

That seems to be true. I've noticed though that the gov'ner leans a little left on some issues.

 

[Andy C]

That seems to be true. I've noticed though that the gov'ner leans a little left on some issues.

If we ever did move to Cheyenne, I would buy a house in your neighborhood just so I could picket outside your house when you disagreed with a post of mine…..

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

That's exactly what my thought were when I saw this article. CHP traditionally policed the highways and freeways. A lot of perps with arrest warrants are caught when pulled over for some thing or other. Often those perps are turned over to local law enforcement. This looks to me to be exactly what you're intimating.

They've been working on this in Missouri for a long time. First, they've tried to eliminate tiny, municipal departments by getting the jurisdictions to contract with County for service. Service is always worse and ends up being more expensive. In a lot of cases, the residents and businesses end up getting abused, especially in poor areas. The County never sends its best officers for contract work. If someone has a complaint, he or she has to contact the municipality, who, in turn, has to seek an audience with the County, to bring up the concern, and then the County will likely ignore, because there aren't enough votes or money to make the small municipality matter. Some municipalities contract with a neighboring municipality, but again, service always declines, for the same reasons. Sometimes an independent third party organization will be contracted with to provide service. This is only marginally better than the other two options, and can end up being worse. It's critical that local jurisdictions have their own LE, which they control.

I could expound for weeks on this . . .
I was there as an officer . . . I felt really bad for the people that ended up with not-locally-controlled LE. The politicians where I worked fought back. One of the ways states are forcing this is requiring department "accreditation," which is very expensive and time-consuming.