by | Nov 22, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (27)
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Siri, get me rewrite ...
New Haven’s police chief has a new strategy to get cops out from behind the desk and into the city’s neighborhoods — police reports written by artificial intelligence.
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(Opinion) This past week, the University of Connecticut School of Law sponsored a Connecticut Sentencing Commission Symposium, “Pretrial Justice in Connecticut.”
For both Connecticut and New Jersey, balancing the importance of pretrial release with the impact on public safety remains paramount. Connecticut has a unique opportunity to affect change in its pretrial detention practices. It can learn much from New Jersey’s bail reform program implemented in January 2017 after years of careful study and bipartisan negotiation.
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by | Nov 21, 2024 9:55 am | Comments (12)
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Alders Smith and Hubbard examine Narcan nasal sprays.
Every New Haven police officer may soon carry overdose-reversing medication — in a donated pouch on their uniform’s vest.
by | Nov 20, 2024 1:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Chief Jacobson at WNHH FM: "I think we're having an upward swing."
Karl Jacobson is cheering, not ruing, the latest police recruitment and retention numbers.
That could mean more cops on the streets in New Haven doing more work with the community.
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by | Nov 19, 2024 1:30 pm | Comments (13)
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New Haven's industrial port: Watch out, enviro scofflaws.
AG Tong: “Gulf Oil ran a defective operation and falsified records to cover its tracks."
An oil tank operator in New Haven’s industrial port has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a state lawsuit that accused the company of falsifying inspection reports and undertaking construction and demolition without pulling the proper permits.
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by | Nov 14, 2024 3:21 pm | Comments (41)
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Sen. Winfield (right), with Alder Marx: "Most of the kids are not repeating and do not belong in jail."
A chronically under-staffed police department 90 officers short meets a national post-pandemic rash of juvenile vandalism, car thefts and life-threatening joy riding that makes everyone feel unsafe.
That “perfect storm” for policing that has arrived in New Haven was analyzed in a crime and safety-focused Westville-West Hills Community Management team meeting Wednesday night.
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by | Nov 12, 2024 10:59 am | Comments (18)
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Blumenthal (right) with tenants union members Asia Foley and Sinclair McCutcheon: "The reach of this legislation would be very broad in protecting tenants."
Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator stood side by side with members of the city’s first officially recognized tenants union to announce proposed legislation to make it easier nationwide for renters to organize and collectively bargain with their landlords.
by | Nov 11, 2024 11:32 am | Comments (5)
A 41-year-old New Havener named Luis Timbila died after being struck by a car in Cedar Hill during an early Sunday morning hit and run.
by | Nov 8, 2024 2:27 pm | Comments (10)
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Chief Jacobson: "This collaboration is what we need in law enforcement today."
Question: What do Woodbridge and Wallingford and Orange and Ansonia and Yale and Naugatuck and Hamden have in common?
Answer: Their police departments are all working together to combat car thefts that “know no [town] borders,” as part of a regional task force spearheaded by New Haven.
by | Nov 7, 2024 4:03 pm | Comments (95)
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Geter-Pataky completes paperwork for a client inside New Haven's vital statistics office.
Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall.
by | Nov 6, 2024 1:37 pm | Comments (2)
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Church St. near Crown, hours after the Nov. 1 shooting.
Police officers who responded to a 2 a.m. shootout on Church Street last Friday found a “very chaotic” scene — with a young woman lying on the sidewalk bleeding from the head, a second gunshot victim standing alongside her, a gun in the middle of the road, car traffic still flowing, a third gunshot victim a block away, and video recordings showing one man firing into a crowd of people, prompting another to return shots with a weapon of his own.
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by | Nov 5, 2024 7:59 am | Comments (9)
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Cardone, on Elm St. in late October.
A state judge has ordered that Robert Cardone., Jr. be re-arrested — after the can collector-turned-“bomb” suspect failed to show up to his latest date in court.
by | Nov 4, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (2)
Police arrested three Wolcott residents caught in a stolen Crown Vic — as cops worked to thwart two street takeovers, one in Newhallville and another in Westville, this weekend.
by | Nov 1, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (27)
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At Church St. between Crown and Center Friday morning.
(Updated) One person has been arrested and one remains in critical condition following an early Friday morning downtown shooting that injured two men and two women between the ages of 19 and 22.
by | Nov 1, 2024 8:50 am | Comments (14)
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Activist Sean Gargamelli-McCreight at Monday's encampment arrests.
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U-ACT's Suki Godek and Joel Nieves join Thursday's protest.
“When the city evicts our unhoused neighbors from the train station and the Green, they call it a cleanup,” arrested homelessness activist Adam Nussbaum said during a protest on the front steps of the downtown courthouse. “And we ask, clean for who? We all know to them, ‘clean’ means dead.”
by | Oct 31, 2024 1:39 pm | Comments (4)
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At the scene of the April 22 Yale encampment arrests.
More than two dozen pro-Palestine Yale arrestees pleaded guilty to infractions and agreed to pay $90 fines in order to have criminal trespassing cases dropped — as 13 more decided instead to keep fighting for those “illegitimate” charges to be dismissed.
by | Oct 29, 2024 3:20 pm | Comments (3)
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Chief Jacobson, Rep. DeLauro, Mayor Elicker, and Asst. Chief Ettienne: Show me the money.
Nearly a $1 million worth of federal earmarks are en route to the city’s police department — to help pay for a virtual reality driving simulator, an expanded police training center library, and a revived local law enforcement “cadet” program.
by | Oct 25, 2024 2:43 pm | Comments (9)
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Robert Cardone, out on bail: Fighting object-discarding"felony."
Robert Cardone pushed a shopping cart filled with black plastic crates and an orange traffic cone along Elm Street — killing time during another day out of jail, out of work, and still shrouded by a “bullshit” bomb-suspect criminal case.
by | Oct 24, 2024 11:06 am | Comments (30)
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Homelessness, policing on the agenda for Hill CMT.
Hill South neighbors pressed the mayor, the police chief, and their district’s top cop to do more to build up the ranks of the city’s police department — and to work harder to address homelessness in the neighborhood.
by | Oct 23, 2024 2:23 pm | Comments (6)
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The Whalley Ave. jail, as viewed from Hudson St.
Correction officers, or C.O.s, are so stressed they divorce at a 70 percent rate, and their average life expectancy is an alarming 59 years, far less than the national average.
Those stats and “un-siloing” of the plight of C.O.s were at the heart of an unusual, sobering panel discussion at Albertus Magnus College — all about trying to find holistic reform of a broken prison system.
by | Oct 17, 2024 5:37 pm | Comments (11)
(Updated) A 24-year-old New Havener named Nicolas Baltazar-Consepcion died early Thursday morning after being hit by a garbage truck in the area of Church Street and North Frontage Road.
by | Oct 13, 2024 8:34 pm | Comments (6)
Police union members voted overwhelmingly in support of ratifying a new six-year contract that would increase salaries by 25 percent over the term of the deal, and that would bump police officers’ starting salaries by nearly $20,000.
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by | Oct 9, 2024 4:26 pm | Comments (4)
(Updated) A 21-year-old New Havener named Niygere Wicker was shot and killed while riding his dirt bike in the area of Ferry Street and Wolcott Street Wednesday afternoon.
by | Oct 8, 2024 10:24 am | Comments (7)
Robert Cardone Jr. has been bailed out of prison in advance of his next court date — a month after the 22-year-old homeless man was first locked up on can-throwing, bomb-threat charges.
by | Oct 7, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (25)
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Gary Hogan (center) with top cops and Beaver Hills neighbors after Wednesday's meetup.
The following Citizen Contribution was written by Ward 28 Democratic Ward Committee Co-Chair Gary Hogan, about a recent neighborhood meetup with top city police to discuss crime in Beaver Hills.
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