SAN JOSE — South Bay officials are launching a pilot program that provides technology for small businesses to connect their security cameras directly to the police department so that crimes can be monitored in real time in a move aimed at mitigating retail theft, they said at a news conference Wednesday.

The announcement from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office and the San Jose Police Department comes nearly two weeks after a smash-and-grab robbery at Kim Hung Jewelry store on Aborn Road in east San Jose drew international attention. Video of the Sept. 5 robbery shows a car crashing into the storefront before more than a dozen masked figures enter and begin breaking the glass jewelry cases; one of the robbers violently shoves the elderly owner of the store to the ground.

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