California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered the California Highway Patrol to deploy new crime-suppression teams to six regions—San Diego, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area—in an effort to bolster local policing in high-crime corridors. The mobile units will consist of at least 15 officers, K-9 handlers and supervisors, and are expected to coordinate with municipal departments to target repeat offenders, illegal firearms and narcotics trafficking. Newsom said the wider rollout builds on pilot operations in Oakland, Bakersfield and San Bernardino, which his office credits with more than 9,000 arrests, recovery of thousands of stolen vehicles and the seizure of hundreds of firearms over the past year. Although statewide crime has fallen in the first half of 2025, the governor argued that additional resources are needed to "keep driving crime down" and accelerate improvements in cities where police forces remain stretched. The move comes two weeks after President Donald Trump threatened to send National Guard troops to "clean up" Democratic-led cities, singling out Oakland and San Francisco. Newsom, who is suing to curb federal troop deployments in California, contrasted his approach with Washington’s, saying it is driven by local cooperation rather than military force. He also challenged the White House’s focus on blue states, suggesting that if the administration were "sincere" about reducing violence it would consider deployments in higher-crime states such as Mississippi and Louisiana.