With our live Doppler Radar and get sevenday forecast for your exact neighborhood. Its all on nbcbayarea. Com. Well, Job Well Done or are they manipulating the numbers . Tonight, there are new questions about san joses Chronic Police shortage. City leaders are showing off the crime figures that they believe should silence the critics of this understaffed department. Nbc bay areas robert honda joins us from police headquarters. And robert, coincidentally, this is the first day for a new class of cadets. Reporter thats right, raj. And the size of that new Police Academy class is one of the arguments being used to attack the message behind these new figures and those arguments remain topic number one in the heated race for mayor. The san jose Police Academy welcomed just 23 new recruits today. The class size, as cited by critics, as another sign as a faltering department. But today mayor chuck reed released new Police Figures to show a different picture and support mayoral candidate, sam
Of roll under the building. They went under there being innocent kids, saw what they thought was a gun. They went home. This occurred last night. They went home and told their mom about it. Mom said tell the staff in the morning. Reporter police retrieved the gun this morning. They believe gang members in the area stashed it at the school. You often see these community guns, or hood guns as theyre called that are left in the areas and gang members with use them the time a rival gang member comes into their area. Reporter this isnt the first time stashed guns were uncovered in santa rosa. Police say earlier this year, a duffel bag found at Rincon Valley park had three loaded weapons inside. Police Say Community guns are stashed in cities all over the bay area where gangs have a foothold. Salgado says this discovery hits too close to home. Its just im in shock. The kids come to play, they will think its a toy. And hey, tragedy is going to hit us right at the door. Reporter the Gang Preve
Theyre right by all of this dry grass. Were midway through the fire season and grass like this will likely not get any drier so the potential for fire is great. Its the dog days of summer and its supposed to get drier. This would go up in a half hour. This will be toast. Reporter calfire is also on alert given the High Temperature could mean increased fire activity. This years drought not helping. As the drier conditions come through like this weekend were going to experience as everybody is. Yeah, a little more attuned to whats going on and a little more active as far as paying attention to how the weather is going to affect the fire conditions. Reporter Police Stopped this weekend its been a long and active fire season for calfire alone. Most started by carelessness. The dry grass can easily start fires. Those are the type of things were looking for. Back at the garlic festival, half a dozen large shade canopies and even rain rooms are set up as well as two water stations if needed.
And neither are parents. A mother [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter says the Gang Activity and shoot outs run rampant in their neighborhood. He believes gang members left the weapon as a Community Gun for anyone to use. It is easy access, if they need it they have easy access to it. If they are confronted by Law Enforcement they dont have it on them. Reporter last year police found a Community Gun across the street from the school and now they are trying to trace the owner of this one. [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter she hopes it stays that way. The kids hear gun shots. They see drive bys. It is part of being here, which is really sad. Reporter the Gang Prevention Task force will be out here talking to kids in the community about doing the right thing like those children who found the gun did when they reported it. Cristina rendon, ktvu channel 2 news. A 50,000 reward is offered to catch a 4th suspect in the Stockton Bank robbery. Authorities are looking for the driver of t
Gang. But he was in a known gang neighborhood at the time of his murder. D. J. Was killed near oak grove football field where planned to coach youth football with his uncle. For my nephew to get baptized four weeks to the day that he died, thats somebody who knew that their time was up. D. J. Was gone but it is his story, the stories of others murdered. You dont ever want to experience that. The Message Police were about to send the public. Were doing great. That would soon collide. I dont know how stupid they think we are but were not that stupid. The reductions working hard to keep the communal safe. Restaurant the same time. It is certainly a concern. San jose was promoting the new gang suppression plan for the summer. Extra patrols. Saturated gang spots. The results, some impressive stats. Gangrelated crime down in every category from last year. Homicides dropped the most. More than 40 . Gang homicides are down from what they were last year. And the Mayors Gang Prevention Task forc