Oakland pushes back on Newsom’s hands-on approach to its crime problems

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Newsom has been exerting state influence in Oakland and in other cities as spikes in crime draw national attention to the West Coast state.

But it has also drawn jeers from police accountability groups and privacy experts who say Newsom’s “Big Brothering” could have a negative effect on disenfranchised communities and people of color. When Newsom announced he was sending the California Highway Patrol to Oakland, he called the officers “the Swiss Army knife of law enforcement in the state” and said the CHP’s job is “not to substitute, but to support” the work of city officials.

Oakland African American Chamber of Commerce President Cathy Adams also said she hasn’t seen results from the Highway Patrol surge.

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