Chinatown businesses band together to boost safety [Video]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Chinatown businesses are banding together to boost safety for customers and the tourism corridor, all in light of a spring crime spike and the latest serial burglar targeting local businesses.

Colin Fukunaga of Fukuburger has been helping spearhead collaboration among local Chinatown and Asian-owned businesses, sharing deterrence tips, surveillance and crime incident information to keep fellow business owners alert.

“There’s no other choice, like, we have to make this happen,” Fukunaga said.

“Chinatown is the third most visited part of Las Vegas now. You’re a business owner. It’s your duty to your customers that you’re here to protect them too,” he said.

Dozens of business owners gathered with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police on Thursday for a meeting with Spring Valley Area Command leaders, all to address the measures taken to catch the burglar responsible for 29 break-ins.

Fukunaga has helped numerous Asian business owners report …