California Highway Patrol Dispatched to Oakland to Fight Crime for Only 5 Days

Published on February 24, 2024

After California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers sent to Oakland to help with rising crime lasted only one workweek in February, some are questioning if budgets and a shortage of highway patrol staff statewide potentially resulted in the drawback. While officials are calling the Feb. 5 through Feb. 9 deployment a success, others say it came with a price. One sheriff of a rural county in Northern California said that highway patrols were diminished in his area by moving them to the Bay Area. “We don’t have the number of highway patrol up here that we should have,” Mendocino County Sheriff Matt Kendall told The Epoch Times. “The governor is pulling resources … and in the meantime, everyone’s up here screaming at me about people driving like maniacs on the highway.”...

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