The move comes as Alameda County’s Pamela Price faces a recall election over her crime approach.
The governor's intervention underscores how crime has become a volatile and divisive issue for California Democrats. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom is rescinding an offer to dispatch attorneys to help prosecute drug crimes in Oakland, accusing Alameda County’s embattled progressive District Attorney Pamela Price of effectively refusing the state’s help.
fueled by concerns about crime. The aggressive intervention also opens an unusually public rift between a publicly elected prosecutor and the state’s most powerful politician, underscoring how crime has become a on the veracity of that data. And even as crime rates remain well below historic peaks, incidents like carjackings andThose dynamics have Price vying for her political survival less than halfway through her term — a sequence of events that echoes former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s
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