California’s Retail Crime Task Force Doubles Arrests in 2023

Published on December 22, 2023

The California Highway Patrol (CHP), as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “Real Public Safety Plan”—introduced at the end of 2021—had a record-breaking year in 2023 making more arrests, recovering more stolen items, and conducting more proactive operations than any previous year, according to a report released Dec. 19 from the governor’s office. According to the report, the CHP made over 1,000 organized retail theft arrests this year—more than double the number in 2022. Additionally, the agency recovered 187,515 items stolen from retailers—topping the previous year by more than 38,600. However, the biggest increase came from the CHP’s “proactive” operations, meaning preventing crimes before they occur, which showed a more than 300 percent increase this year, according to the report....

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