The San Jose Police
Department reported that residential burglaries dropped by 40% in the last four
years. However, other crimes continue to rise, and the chief said he knows why.
While home burglaries
dropped, violent crime has been increasing citywide. Robberies and assaults
have risen steadily over the last six years and chief Eddie Garcia said all
those numbers should realistically be worse, given the size of his force.
“The fact that aggravated
assaults haven’t gone up as much as it probably could, is because of the
proactive work those officers do,” he said.
Garcia said San Jose remains
the biggest U.S. city with the fewest number of officers on the streets.
The department is slowing
rebuilding and the more officers join the force, the chief said, the faster the
violent crimes will drop.
“We have some areas where we
need to improve, but hopefully that will improve when we grow our department,” Garcia’s
said.
Source: NBC Bay Area
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