{"id":194528,"date":"2025-08-12T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194528"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:55:43","slug":"newsom-says-californias-crime-rates-down-amid-trumps-continued-assault-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=194528","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Says California\u2019s Crime Rates Down amid “Trump\u2019s Continued Assault on Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sacramento, CA…Newsom says that…”While the President continues his assault on democracy, this time by threatening to deploy federal law enforcement officials to states across the country, California has brought down crime in nearly every major category. Based on data<\/a>\u00a0released by the California Department of Justice, nearly every major crime category, including violent crime and homicides, dropped in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Recently, President Trump\u00a0baselessly<\/a>\u00a0deployed military\u00a0 assets in Washington, D.C. to \u201crescue our nation\u2019s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,\u201d repeating a playbook he used in\u00a0 the Los Angeles region in early June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Trump is peddling the same tired lie he used in Los Angeles \u2014 claiming there\u2019s rampant lawlessness in Democratic cities like Washington, D.C. The truth? GOP-led cities have higher crime rates. His authoritarian orders aren\u2019t about safety \u2014 they\u2019re an attack on the very foundation of our nation and a slap in the face to democracy.<\/p>\n

Governor Gavin Newsom<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The irony is palpable \u2013 on Trump\u2019s first day in office in 2025, he pardoned more than 1,500 of his supporters for their actions to invade the Capitol on January 6. His followers assaulted Capitol and D.C. police officers, with more than 140 officers injured that day, one dying on January 7, and others dying by suicide later.<\/p>\n

Trump also mentioned Los Angeles, Oakland, and other major cities in which he would similarly seek to deploy troops or federal law enforcement. . Although there was a nationwide spike in crime during President Trump\u2019s first term, California made the choice to invest in \u2014 not abandon \u2014 its families.<\/p>\n

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California\u2019s 2024 homicide rate is now the second lowest it has been since at least 1966. The overall number of homicides in California decreased by nearly 12% since 2023.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s homicide rates have historically been lower than those in many other states. According to\u00a0CDC data from 2022<\/a>, the latest year available for all states, Alabama\u2019s homicide rate was 152% higher than California\u2019s, Oklahoma\u2019s was 41% higher and Arkansas\u2019 was 100% higher.<\/p>\n