Several East Bay community leaders expressed surprise Wednesday that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s highly-touted bid to crack down on crime by flooding the streets with 120 California Highway Patrol officers has already subsided after only five days. The reactions came after Newsom on Wednesday announced the arrests of dozens of people and the recovery of scores of stolen vehicles during the influx of highway patrol officers to Oakland and the East Bay. In touting the arrests, Newsom promised more “surge operations” to come but offered no details on how many officers that would entail or what types of c…
