Authorities in San Jose on Monday summarized the results of enforcement in the South Bay during the Cinco de Mayo weekend as police employed 'zero tolerance for criminal behavior.'
SAN JOSE -- Authorities in San Jose on Monday summarized the results of enforcement in the South Bay during the Cinco de Mayo weekend as police employed"zero tolerance for criminal behavior" during festivities.
"During the course of normal operations, SJPD patrol units observed several misdemeanors, felonies, reckless driving incidents, sideshow activity, and other quality of life crimes that required enforcement action in order to keep the peace," the release said. "Some of the information that we've seen and read so far from Caltrans is that they believed their orders were to stop people from the east side from going into downtown San Jose," Cortese said."If that's not racism, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's geographic redlining. Whatever it is, it's unacceptable."
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