Crime rate holds steady 9.06.07
Though summer students at Yale were hit with a string of street robberies and room thefts, Yale and city officials said the level of crime around campus this summer was comparable with the same period in 2006.
Fair Haven’s Grand Avenue is home to several shops and marketplaces. The normally-bustling area was quiet in the days following the Department of Homeland Security’s June 7 immigration raids.
Though summer students at Yale were hit with a string of street robberies and room thefts, Yale and city officials said the level of crime around campus this summer was comparable with the same period in 2006.
For a road typically filled with music jingles, fragrant smells and food vendors, Fair Haven’s Grand Avenue looked vacant — the restaurant table settings untouched, market shelves undisturbed, city sounds muted to low whispers. It was June 7, a day after the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered the predominantly Latino New Haven borough and arrested 32 undocumented immigrants.