Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he would expand the deployment of special California Highway Patrol teams in major California cities to fight crime, even as he touted crime numbers being down in the state.

These CHP crime suppression teams will work with local law enforcement in San Diego, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, the governor’s office said.

“These operations will be targeted. They’ll be data driven,” Newsom said.

Newsom also trumpeted progress already made on crime in the state, but said the numbers alone mean little to Californians.

“These are aggregate numbers, but we don’t live in the aggregate. Everybody lives in a different community, with different conditions, different challenges, and we are mindful that

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