Newsom mirrors Trump in escalation of policing
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Gavin Newsom has responded to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in D.C. with his own escalation of policing in California. On Thursday, he announced the deployment of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to San Diego, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area to “saturate high crime areas”. The Ramsey for Governor campaign strongly condemns the deployment of CHP. While the media is framing Newsom’s decision as resistance to Trump, it actually reinforces the president's right wing power grab by legitimizing the lie that there is a massive crime wave across the country. The real crime is that in California 194 billionaires hoard $1.2 trillion while half the state lives paycheck to paycheck.
While both Trump and Newsom are justifying their actions through “tough on crime” rhetoric, the reality is that crime rates in California are falling. In the first half of 2025, homicides, gun assaults and robberies in California are down 17%, 21% and 20% respectively. Property crime is at its lowest since 1985. While Newsom is claiming that CHP has reduced crime in areas where they have been deployed since early 2024, the data tells a different story. Oakland and San Francisco experienced drops in violent crime by 19% and 14% respectively, but CHP was only deployed to Oakland. San Francisco had its lowest homicide rate in 60 years in 2024 without the intervention of CHP.
Both democrats and republicans put forward the same solution: deploy the police and criminalize poverty. This is the bipartisan answer to crime because both parties represent billionaires before working people. Fomenting fear of a crime wave is a consistent tactic of the ultra rich to distract from the truth: we have all the resources to end poverty and guarantee everyone a dignified life, but the ultra-rich and their politicians choose not to.
The Ramsey for Governor campaign puts the needs of the people over the needs of the rich. By raising income and asset taxes on the ultra-wealthy and their corporations, we can abolish billionaires and use the fourth largest economy in the world to guarantee everyone a dignified life. We will guarantee everyone in the state an affordable cost of living by making healthcare, lifelong education, a job, childcare and a dignified retirement guaranteed rights for every Californian. Our campaign stands for an end to racist and militarized policing and the placement of police forces in community control. Californians need a comprehensive approach to crime reduction and a Governor who will not use police escalation in a move of political theatre. Join our campaign to address the real causes of crime, and build a California for the people.
