Newsom Refuses To Fund Popular Safety Law While Casting Himself As California’s Crime-Fighting Governor

Californian officials and residents are increasingly irritated while Governor Democratic Gavin Newsom refuses funding for a difficult bipartite law on crime despite his efforts to deploy more police teams.

Newsom announced a greater number of road patrol officers in the cities of California at a press conference on Thursday, assuring that President Donald Trump is wrong to claim that California needs the help of the National Guard. But local officials and residents also increase the pressure on Newsom to devote more funds to proposal 36, a law adopted by 68% of voters in November that the governor called a gateway to excessive imprisonment.

Among other measures, proposal 36 has transformed flight and property crimes into crimes and elongation penalties, according to the California legislative analyst’s office. This also requires that some repeated drug offenders choose between a treatment program and three years in prison, increasing the consequences of these crimes. The courts can extend certain sentences depending on the amount of medication sold. (Related: Newsom attacks the Republicans on violent crimes – data tell a different story)

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“The Governor undertakes to operationalize Prop 36,” said the Newsom office at the Daily Caller News Foundation, referring to part of the law funding in the state budget. But the governor still opposes the parties of the law because they will remove funding for mental health and drug treatment, kindergarten school programs in the 12th year and housing services in favor of putting more people in prison, said his office.

“This is mass incarceration, not mass treatment,” said Newsom about the new law in September 2024.

Newsom argued that if the counties wish to apply the law, they should count on their own funding. He agreed from $ 100 million in funding in the state budget for the county’s behavioral health services, the services prior to trial and legal expenses, politico reported in June. Supporters of proposal 36 claim that $ 400 million is necessary for its application to go well, castigating the governor in a Torrance town hall a few hours after his police announcement, Fox11 reported.

“It’s much slower,” said Los Angeles County District Prosecutor Nathan Hochman on Thursday to the current implementation of the law. “If prisons should actually be the treatment centers, they are not fully equipped to be appropriate treatment centers.”

“We will call him. We will send him social media. We DM,” said Hochman. I will say it directly to the camera: Governor Newsom, if you look, get this funding. If you want to save lives, get us this funding.

Hochman’s office has filed more than 1,600 cases of proposal for the proposal 36 since the entry into force of the law. The sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, Robert Luna, and the acting police chief of Torrance, Robert Dunn, also urged more funding for the law at the town hall, according to Fox11.

Proposal 36 overthrew parts of proposal 47 supported by Newsom, which demoted theft of less than $ 950 of crimes to crimes. The researchers associated the passage of proposal 47 in 2014 with a peak in certain real estate crimes, according to the public Policy Institute of California. Meanwhile, flight report decreased by more than 7% from 2010 to 2022, a bipartite state commission revealed.

Newsom California continues to devote funds for medicines and mental health treatment available under the two proposals 36 and 47, showing that there is a lot of overlap between the two laws, the Governor’s office told DCNF.

“Treatment funding was ample before Prop 36,” said his office.

Some still believe that Newsom’s support is absent.

“Without the legal tools necessary to cope with the challenges of recurrences, namely the drug addicts and the crimes they commit, the crime suppression teams and the National Guard will face the same long -term problem with which the local police are faced – a game of criminal Whack a mole,” said Steve Smith, a public security expert for the Pacific Institute California, the DCNF in an email.

“Prop 36 was designed to provide police, prosecutors and judges the possibility of loading and imposing” compulsory treatment crimes “, which guarantees that drug addicts would obtain the rehabilitation treatment they need but will not seek or not finish in the outgoing circles,” said Smith.

Newsom’s criticism has come from many angles. Republican legislators and state Democrats attacked Newsom for ignoring the wishes of voters to see difficult crime law in full effect. The owners of local businesses previously declared to the DCNF that its actions meant that it did not defend them against the display thieves. (Related: “It’s disgusting”: the voters are furious with Gavin Newsom to draw a carpet from the measurement of the sub-Réussia vote)

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are welcomed by California Governor Gavin Newsom when they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the fires of Palisades and Eaton. (Photo of Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom’s choice to send road patrol officers to six California regions to collaborate with local officials is expanding a strategy that he has been able to in recent fields in recent years, Calmatters reported. Newsom began sending police officers to the city with a strong crime of Oakland in 2023, according to his office. Oakland and Compton were two of the country’s best cities for murder rates in 2024, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Liberal Governor has repeatedly rejected concerns about Californian crime by pointing to the Republican states with higher homicide rates. Such complaints are unaware of data showing that the Golden State has violent crime rates and higher crime than most of the country, DCNF previously reported.

Violent crimes decreased by 6% in California in 2024, but remained 10.8% higher than the precovid-19 levels, according to data from the Center for Criminal Justice Statistics.

Trump floated by sending the National Guard to the country’s liberal cities to provide order since he started using more federal resources against crime in Washington, DC, in August. “Look at what the Democrats have done in San Francisco. They destroyed it. We could also clean this. We will also clean this one,” he said on August 22.

Newsom’s administration continued in June in June for Trump’s decision to send the troops to Los Angeles in the midst of violent riots to support illegal immigrants. “He militates American cities de facto,” Newsom said on Thursday, which many suspect the presidency in 2028.

If Newsom wants Trump to leave California quiet, he should do a better job to help counties cleaning their streets, Smith at DCNF told.

“If Prop 36 had been financed Governor Newsom would not be faced with the threat of the deployment of the National Guard!” Smith said.

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