The chyron that the local Fox affiliate chose to run with this story is ironic: "CA Gov. Newsom Addresses Statewide Crime." Gavin Newsom's been flooding X with posts citing the violent crime statistics in other states; red states in particular. Never mind that the crime is taking place in blue cities long run by Democrat mayors.

Newsom has been claiming that crime is lower in California than in all of these other states. Rep. Eric Swalwell tried to give him a hand by describing MacArthur Park, overrun with drugs and the homeless, as a great family picnic spot. But now Newsom is finally turning his attention to his own state, and deploying his own stormtroopers to crack down on crime in San Francisco and Los Angeles and Bakersfield.

The first step is admitting you have a crime problem.

He has been copying Donald Trump a lot lately, from his press office parodying Trump's social media style to setting up an online store selling "Make America Gavin Again" merchandise.

His advisers have told him to cool it with the jazz hands.

More crime isn't polling well?

That's the problem. Even if he lets law enforcement off the chain to actually make arrests, the Soros district attorneys will just escort criminals through the revolving door.

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