Could amount to a major invasion of privacy. There could be a new feature coming to the webster tube that connects oakland with alameda. License plate readers. Theis is about pushing the needle back and trying to reduce a recent spike in property crimes. Reporter crime has gone up 12 this past year. Twothirds of that driven by burglaries, car breakins and robberies. Now he wants his city to spend 500,000 for fixed license place readers on tunnels that lead on and off the island. Its not just for crimes committed in alameda. It could be a stolen vehicle stolen in another city somewhere and then that car comes into alameda or that license plate comes into alameda, we will be alerted. Reporter he points to other cities like piedmont which claims a 34 reduction in property crime since license plate readers were installed in 2014. Alameda already has readers on four patrol cars. We are seeing glass broken on the streets every day. We should all get behind this and support it for the sake of