State Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, is seeking Gov. Gavin Newsom’s help for Antioch’s police force, which has been struggling to maintain public safety due to the department’s low number of officers.
Along with state Assemblymember Tim Grayson, Glazer sent a letter to Newsom on Wednesday seeking assistance for more officers in the Antioch Police Department. Years of FBI and local investigations into the city’s police have “decimated” their ranks, Glazer’s office said in a statement.
The state senator has also discussed the issue with California Highway Patrol Commissioner Sean Duryee.
“The City of Antioch is struggling with public safety right now, and the CHP can help,” Glazer said in a statement.
Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe recently said in a podcast with Glazer that the city, which has a population of about 120,000 residents, has “about four or five officers at any given moment patrolling our streets.”
According to the mayor, the response time of Antioch police can be excessively long since more than half of the city’s 87 officers are on leave because of the investigations into the force.
“We can use the help because it would drastically reduce time in which an officer can respond to a crime,” Thorpe said on the “Table Talk” podcast hosted by Glazer.
In early August, Antioch City Councilmember Mike Barbanica asked city officials to get more assistance from both the CHP and the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office due to staffing issues within Antioch police.
If Newsom grants Glazer’s request, Antioch will be the third city this year to get help from the CHP, following San Francisco in May and Oakland in August.
Just maybe, Newsome can ask the pooh bear over in China to get some help from the Rénmín Jǐngchá. Detente.
Newsome only makes things worse
Reminder that Grayson and Glazer have been in office for YEARS, Glazer especially since he also worked for Jerry Brown. Yet, they waited until there is an absolute crisis to step in and “save the day.” Another reminder that Concord’s own current economic developer Guy Bjerke was the economic developer for Antioch years ago and, instead of creating a place people wanted to live in, he helped develop a place of fast food restaurants and dense (for the time) apartment buildings where people who were being economically pushed out of other communities were forced to relocate. Policies, new and old, have consequences and these are the elected officials with a voice who could’ve spoken up earlier. Stop voting for these career politicians unless you see a change – they aren’t going to fix it, they are covering up for the own poor performance.
Glazer, Newsom, and Grayson.
Sounds like a horrible law firm or an equally horrible vaudeville act.
DBA “Willie, Cheatum, & Howe”.
Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe!
ROFL
Gee is that what happens when you put 87 officers are on leave because of the investigations? Not rocket science. Way to go DEMs.
Put the guys back to work that you laid off. They were probably the most productive.
This would of course deplete the CHP in Co Co county.
My opinion:
Mayor, all council, city manager, entire department Chief down (sworn and non-sworn) should be eliminated. Start over…
Will sadly; be costly, but necessary.
Sorry newscum is busy traveling the world on tax payer money, so he can run fir president. Guess oakland and Antioch are getting what they protested for. Defund baby.
I hear their Mayor is a big problem.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul typical career politicians. Never owned or ran their own successful businesses.
Stop voting for them. TERM LIMITS.
@Lou,@Ricardoh
Both are 100% right
They got exactly what they were asking for when they went after the jobs of all those officers, especially in a city that needs the most policing
Criminals just licking their chops
Whenever I see ” Newsom” and “Help” in the same sentence it’s usually “Newsom……..Help!”
Curly & Larry decided “We better bring Moe in on this one”
That’s a good one..
Like asking a wino to watch your liquor store.