Overview

• The California Highway Patrol will deploy crime suppression teams to San Diego, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Newsom said deployments will be unannounced with teams of at least 15 personnel including K‑9 units, and a CHP spokesperson said the effort uses existing resources with no additional cost and will be fully operational statewide within two weeks.
• CHP leaders said the teams will share intelligence, coordinate enforcement and assist investigations to deter and disrupt organized crime in high‑impact areas.
• Officials pointed to earlier operations that produced 6,200 citations, hundreds of recovered stolen vehicles and more than 700 pounds of seized fentanyl, with 2024 efforts accounting for over 9,000 arrests, 400 firearms seized and 5,800 vehicles recovered.
• Newsom criticized President Trump’s use of federal forces in cities, urged him to focus on states like Louisiana and Mississippi with higher murder rates, and contrasted California’s declines in violent and property crime and a lower homicide rate with CDC data on several GOP‑led states.