by | Jan 26, 2022 11:33 am | Comments (6)
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Monday night's virtual CRB meeting.
The Civilian Review Board is gearing up for a showdown — or a friendly, clarifying conversation? or both? — with the Elicker Administration about exactly which types of police-misconduct complaints it is allowed to review.
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by | Jan 25, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (7)
Imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer (right) owes Alan Dershowitz (left) $20,000, according to court records.
A federal judge has blocked convicted sex offender Daniel Greer’s housing nonprofits from diverting money from rental properties to pay over $308,000 to various lawyers — including controversial celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz — who have helped Greer seek to leave prison and avoid paying a sex-assault victim.
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by | Jan 24, 2022 4:06 pm | Comments (14)
Mayor Elicker on Monday: Police chief search process should take at least four months to complete.
The search firm RFQ posting on the city website.
The Elicker Administration has formally begun searching for a search firm to help find a new permanent police chief, over a month after the mayor first committed to taking a nationwide look for a new leader of the local police department.
by | Jan 24, 2022 2:09 pm | Comments (4)
Three people were hospitalized after three separate over three separate days this past weekend.
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (13)
When an Exchange Street tenant stayed past the end of her lease, her landlord filed an eviction — even though federal Section 8 vouchers still covered her full monthly rent. Now a judge has given the tenant and her family three extra months to find a new place to live.
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by | Jan 20, 2022 5:47 pm | Comments (40)
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Pressed into extra duty: Top earner Raul Pereira (center) at hostage scene.
With the police department understaffed amid surging violent crime and demands for walking cops, New Haven paid 17 cops more than $200,000 in 2021.
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by | Jan 20, 2022 4:33 pm | Comments (7)
Jahmal Furman's dining room ceiling, before and after being repaired. It took his landlord nearly four months to make the fix.
Furman: "I just wanted them to fix the ceiling."
A rainstorm knocked a hole in Jahmal Furman’s ceiling, which remained unrepaired for nearly four months.
A rent dispute stemming from the Quinnipiac Avenue tenant’s concerns over delayed maintenance may now lead to his eviction.
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by | Jan 20, 2022 4:06 pm | Comments (2)
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Lead plaintiff Personna Noble, at right, at 2016 lawsuit launch.
Over 1,100 former Church Street South residents have now received between $5,000 and $20,000 each so far, thanks to an $18.75 million class action lawsuit settlement that took effect roughly a year ago.
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by | Jan 19, 2022 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Officers and loved ones gather at Wednesday's funeral.
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The death of Police Officer Diane Gonzalez “changed all of our lives in some way,” one of her former colleagues recalled at an emotional funeral ceremony held Wednesday.
by | Jan 19, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (24)
Officer Cole at Tuesday's police commission virtual meeting.
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Officers making an arrest at the CT Financial Center in 2021.
An officer who repeatedly punched an unarmed troubled arrestee in the head until another officer intervened will now supervise fellow cops as a newly promoted sergeant.
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:29 am | Comments (11)
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300-unit apartment complex under construction on Union Street in Wooster Square. Under new law, buildings like these would have to set aside affordable apts.
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Legislation Committee Chair and East Rock Alder Charles Decker with City Plan Director Aicha Woods after Tuesday's vote.
Developers looking to partake in New Haven’s market-rate apartment boom will now be required to set aside a certain percentage of units at deed-restricted affordable rents, as the Board of Alders granted final approval to an “inclusionary zoning” law years in the making.
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:21 am | Comments (9)
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Newly approved Commissioner Rhonda Caldwell at a 2019 rally calling for the firing of Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton.
Five Hamden residents with diverse policing perspectives have officially taken over Hamden’s Police Commission — after a final debate over whether citizens who question police policies should be involved in decision-making on public safety.
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by | Jan 17, 2022 10:37 am | Comments (1)
Police have identified the 22-year-old man dead inside a car in the road on Fairview Avenue: His name was Herman Bellamy.
by | Jan 14, 2022 11:40 am | Comments (1)
Hamden police are seeking the public’s help in finding a driver who crashed into a woman, then fled the scene.
Continue reading ‘Hit-&-Run Driver Sends Pedestrian, 64, To Hospital’
by | Jan 13, 2022 2:12 pm | Comments (5)
Former Hamden cop Devin Eaton.
Former Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton entered a written plea of no contest Thursday to one count of first-degree assault two years after he opened fire on Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon.
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by | Jan 12, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (51)
Mayor Elicker (right) with "Acting" Chief Dominguez on Monday.
Five weeks after the mayor promised to launch a national search for a police chief after his nominee was voted down, that national search has still not begun — leading to a lawsuit charging that having the rejected “acting” nominee remain indefinitely in the job is illegal.
by | Jan 12, 2022 8:48 am | Comments (4)
Hamden police arrested a 14-year-old Meriden resident for allegedly firing shots at a vehicle.
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by | Jan 11, 2022 10:11 pm | Comments (7)
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Sgt. Jasmine Sanders.
The Board of Police Commissioners voted unanimously to suspend a sergeant for 16 days — not for the six months recommended by New Haven’s acting police chief — for mishandling a domestic violence case involving a drunken firefighter who later killed himself.
by | Jan 11, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (5)
Officer Diane Gonzalez.
New Haven cops are mourning the loss of a fellow officer who was injured in a 2008 car crash.
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by | Jan 11, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (0)
Attorney Steve Mednick addresses Hamden's Legislative Council Monday night.
Just four months after Hamden’s old Legislative Council vetoed a year’s worth of edits to a ten-year-old town charter, a new administration has unanimously appointed seven volunteers to resurrect the revision process.
by | Jan 10, 2022 5:17 pm | Comments (5)
New Haven police reported three more shootings, leading to six in the first seven days of 2022.
by | Jan 5, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (12)
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Newly appointed Department of Community Resilience Acting Director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo.
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The mayor has tapped city social-services staffer Carlos Sosa-Lombardo to be the inaugural acting director of the Department of Community Resilience — a new city agency charged with finding a data-driven, coordinated response to social issues ranging from homelessness to mental health disorders to drug addition to prison reentry.
by | Jan 4, 2022 1:28 pm | Comments (25)
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Bike Life on parade in the Annex.
It starts softly. A faraway hum, a whisper in the night. As it approaches, you can feel it in your bones. Conversations stop. Drivers hold their steering wheels tighter. Pedestrians crossing the street hurry back to the sidewalk.
The motorcycles are coming.
by | Jan 4, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (2)
New Haven police responded to three shootings in town over the past three days.
None were fatal.
by | Jan 2, 2022 6:55 pm | Comments (22)
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New Haven police finished a deadly year making arrests in 12 percent of all city homicides — while their counterparts in other major Connecticut cities had four to eight times as much success.