Two state lawmakers are trying to get the California Highway Patrol to help with Antioch's beleaguered police department, where about half the department is caught up in a racist text scandal.
State Senator Steve Glazer and Assemblymember Tim Grayson on Monday sent a joint letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, noting that CHP officers could step in to fill in the holes.
He doesn't know if and when he'll hear back from the governor, but his request comes after Mayor Lamar Thorpe told Glazer on his latest podcast that the city only has "about four or five officers at any given moment patrolling our streets," in a city of 120,000 people. Thorpe said more than half of the 87 city-authorized officers are on leave because of the investigations into the force, leaving just over 40 officers to patrol the city.
"We can use the help because it would drastically reduce time in which an officer can respond to a crime," Mayor Thorpe said on the podcast.
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