Tehama County, where about 66,000 people live about 120 miles north of the state capital in Sacramento, is ending daytime patrol because employees keep leaving and salaries are comparatively low.
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Unless things have really changed in the past 6-7 years, the article exaggerates the violent crime in Red Bluff. It wasn't even on the scale compared to all the other cities in the Valley when I lived in California.
According to the table here at city-data.com, up until 2019 (the last year recorded), they averaged one murder and about 100 assaults a year which ain't bad for a city of that size. It appears their biggest problems are thefts and burglaries.
