SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose’s Alum Rock community is fed up with the increase in crime. Now businesses are getting a new tool to try to stop it – cameras.
In the last few years, businesses have been broken into, and some employees have been robbed at gunpoint. Often these crimes happen in broad daylight.
In the summer of 2022, five suspects robbed popular Peter’s Bakery. Surveillance cameras were rolling as the criminals held employees at knife point. Seeing that incident play out on-camera really worried local residents and created a sense of fear for small business owners and employees.
“It’s already hard enough to live in the Bay Area, let alone have a small business in the Bay Area. It’s expensive and then somebody takes everything from you,” said Regina Diaz who lives in Alum Rock.
Diaz said she prefers to stay home, nervous about coming out to the business coordinator.
“Historically, our neighborhoods and business corridors have lacked the infrastructure …