Newsom taps California Highway Patrol to fight organized retail theft

The Hill ^ | 11/27/2023 | MIRANDA NAZZARO

[ChicagoConservative27]

The California Highway Patrol is increasing its operations to help curb organized retail crime under a new order from the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

“When criminals run out of stores with stolen goods, they need to be arrested and escorted directly into jail cells,” Newsom wrote in a statement announcing the effort.

“Leveraging hundreds of millions of dollars in law enforcement investments, the California Highway Patrol — working with allied agencies — is increasing enforcement efforts and conducting and supporting covert and confidential takedowns to stop these criminals in their tracks during the holiday season, and year-round.

[Openurmind]

Which also means more people on the highways are going to die in accidents because of a longer response time to show up at the scene.

[bert]

They no longer have local police

They now have PINO’s

[vpintheak]

This is the same a-hole that promotes everything pinko, right?
So police arrest people; the pinko judges and politicians let them out immediately. What’s the point!?

[G Larry]

Why would the CHP waste their time and energy to arrest a bunch of thugs that liberal judges will immediately release?

[Desron13]

Gone are the days that cops would give punks like this an “elevator ride” for a “tuneup”. Sigh...

[dragnet2]

CHP, AAA with a gun...

[Karliner]

social engineering, create the problem, government fixes the problem, badly, raises taxes, done deal.

[Jonny7797]

the organized groups are stealing good worth a hundred times that amount.

[frog in a pot]

How? Police downtown instead of patrolling the highways?

There are a lot of retail stores on the freeway. CHP will be on pedal bicycles in street clothes on the freeway where all the shoplifters are, sez the gov.

[chiller]

He needed a defense for the DeSantis debate. He was about to be roasted on the subject. He can deflect, albeit it without any evidence it works.

Words and intentions are enough.

[Red Badger]

Joe Isuzu as governor.........................

[Red Badger]

Pancho & Lefty this time around.................

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoKvUYbGu7A

[Openurmind]

My concern would be that they might be using this excuse to try and set a precedent. They might start stopping and searching at will with no probable cause and unfettered. And if the people of Ca allow it, the practice will then spread across the nation and they will be doing it everywhere.

[Lockbox]

Gee maybe the FBI could help….. also don’t forget the school crossing guards…..

[ryderann]

Wouldn’t training to keep the roadways safe and under control be a bit different from the training needed to fight organized retail theft?

[zeestephen]

So he can brag he is tough on crime at the DeSantis Debate?

Pathetic.

[waterhill]

Townes Van Zandt (who wrote the song)is in that video. ( not bragging, but I knew him, hanging out with some folks whom I shouldn’t been hanging out with).....

[Kevin in California]

How bout bringing back Reed and Malloy?

[Chad C. Mulligan]

CHP may have the tools to go after whoever fences the stuff these gangs steal.