Governor Newsom has finally begun cracking down on smash-and-grab crimes that plague the state of California.

According to a new report, he’s planning a $267 million investment that would allow cities to hire more law enforcement and prosecute more of these crimes.

Here’s more via Washington Times:

Public safety regulators in California are voting Thursday on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to crack down on organized retail crime by sending millions of dollars to police departments and prosecutors.

The Board of State and Community Corrections vote could greenlight the $267 million investment distributed among 55 cities and counties. Funding would be delivered as soon as Oct. 1 if approved by the board.

Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, said the funds would let local police hire more cops and help district attorneys dedicate more time to pursuing charges against robbers who have been stealing six figures’ worth of merchandise.

“Enough with these brazen smash-and-grabs,” Mr. Newsom said in a press release. “With an unprecedented $267 million investment, Californians will soon see more takedowns, more police, more arrests and more felony prosecutions. When shameless criminals walk out of stores with stolen goods, they’ll walk straight into jail cells.”

Many of the cities included in the proposed spending are in the Bay Area or Los Angeles and its neighboring counties.

While Newsome has tried to distance himself from the defund the police movement, he has talked about ‘reimagining police’ which is a similar idea as you well know. So it’s quite ironic that skyrocketing crime has finally forced him to begin funding more police and the DAs offices to prosecute them.

But we all know nothing is really going to change until these DAs offices begin prosecuting these offenders to the fullest extent of the law.