A Penrose store owner says its hard to see a future for his business, after it was targeted by criminals for the fifth time since he took over barely a year ago.
Local residents say there's huge concern over break-ins being committed in the area, with one woman telling Checkpoint she moved to New Zealand to escape crime rates in her homeland.
Meanwhile, a local builder says he alone is getting multiple callouts to crime-related jobs in Auckland every week.
Here's our reporter Nick Truebridge and cameraman Nick Monro.
