ROSS: Lessons from a quiet leader
Gangbuster
As this academic year and this column ease off into the sunset, it’s time to review the recent history of city policing — and especially to recall one of its most successful, overlooked leaders.
ROSS: Heading off a drug storm
The United States must work to channel the gathering storm toward proven reforms if we are to prevent false solutions like legalization from replacing an endless bloodbath with never-ending despair.
ROSS: Giving Yale a bad rap
Gangbuster
In their cancellation of a rap event at the Af-Am House, Yale administrators and police officials allowed tentative security concerns to trump all else and seemed to lack any willingness to work with the event's to find a middle ground between safety and free expression.
ROSS: NYPD needs an intervention
Gangbuster
I can state without hesitation that I love the New York Police Department. The city owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who drove crime to historic lows and did much to make the city the way it is today.
ROSS: The myth of dangerous Dixwell
Gangbuster
Dixwell is a potent reminder of the truth in the cliché that Yale is a part of New Haven, and of the fallacy in the perception that New Haven is not a great city. Dixwell and New Haven are great not because of wealth, power or prestige, but because of their people — they’ve got grit.
ROSS: Curb prostitution demand
Gangbuster
It’s Sex Week, so it seems a fitting time for a crime column to turn to a discussion of sex crimes. Argh! Isn’t there anywhere we can escape discussions of sex? you might be groaning to yourself . I sympathize, but nope, sorry, not this week. The least I can do is offer up a one-liner to ease you into it.
ROSS: The end of the Esserman honeymoon
Gangbuster
Well that didn’t take long. Like many marriages, the union between the city and its new police chief is going through a rocky patch just after the honeymoon, and the relationship’s future is not clear.
ROSS: Restoring real community policing
Gangbuster
Bringing back what many people call community policing will not cure New Haven’s crime problem. Because it never really left.
ROSS: Put terror on trial
Gangbuster
We interrupt this usual weekly bulletin of local crime and security issues to address a pressing security matter on the national and international stage: the fight against terrorism.
ROSS: Setting crime rates straight
Gangbuster
There has been a lot of anger about crime in New Haven lately. Well, not about the crime itself so much as the way it is counted. This anger threatens to dilute accountability for city officials and distract from the city’s actual problems.
ROSS: No excuses for New Haven’s murder rate
Gangbuster
New Haven has seven official sister-cities, ranging from Freetown in Sierra Leone to Mexico’s Tetlanohcan, with whom it tries to increase appreciation of each other’s cultures. I suggest an eighth: the island of Puerto Rico. Yes, I know it’s not technically a city and yes, it’s part of the United States, but when it comes to New Haven’s most pressing issue at the moment—crime—the parallels are too strong to ignore.
ROSS: The incident that wasn’t
Gangbuster
I’m sure many of us saw the latest manifestation of the crime problem that plagues our city and therefore our school. How could you not? It practically rammed into Trumbull College.
LETTER: Make the Mass accessible
Travis Heine’s recent column argued that the upcoming changes to the Roman Catholic mass are for the better. I’m not so sure — as a Roman Catholic, I think the changes sound pretty horrid.
Memo to Sarah Eidelson ’12
MEMORANDUM
ROSS: We need a complete crime report
When Yale releases its annual safety report, we trust that its statistics give an accurate picture of campus crime. They don’t.
ROSS: Candidates neglect policing
It’s no surprise that New Haven has a crime and policing problem. It is a surprise that neither of our Ward 1 aldermanic candidates seem willing or able to do much about it.
ROSS: The Limon I know
New Haven is losing a dishonest police chief. But don’t worry, he leaves behind dishonest city officials aplenty.
For our Readers: Reporting the Pundits party
For the last several weeks, the News has been covering the fallout from a party hosted by the Pundits society on February 19.
Alleged murderer ruled mentally unfit
A New Haven Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the man charged with the April murder of a Yale post-doctoral fellow must undergo 60-day mental health treatment. The ruling has no bearing on his mental state when he allegedly committed the crime.
Police chief develops strategy to curb violence
Up Close
The NHPD has made arrests in four murders since New Haven Police Chief Frank Limon took up his post six months ago, and the police are crediting the chief’s new strategy. Still, the national murder closure rate is 64 percent, whereas New Haven’s, since last October, is 18 percent.
Around New Haven 9.24.10
A 43 year-old woman was the victim of a drive-by stabbing Wednesday night. The woman, Tasha Groomes, told police she had been walking in the Dixwell neighborhood when two males on bicycles drove by her and one of the riders stabbed her once in the abdomen. Police said she was taken to St. Raphael’s Hospital and is being treated for her injuries.
Briefly: Death near Yale-New Haven was suicide
Police said Tuesday that they believe the man found dead near Yale-New Haven Hospitalon Monday morning has committed suicide.
Mayor announces downtown crime crackdown
DeStefano says city will increase officers, lighting
Standing on Crown Street near the site of the College Street shooting, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and New Haven Police Department Chief Frank Limon announced at a press conference that they are taking what DeStefano called "preventative measures" to put a stop to future violence.
Man found dead near Yale-New Haven Hospital
After a dead body was found near Yale-New Haven Hospital, the status of the police investigation is unclear as officers focus on Sunday’s College Street gunfight. There was no announcement about the incident, and some officials were unaware of it.
Police to increase presence near Crown Street
City officials release new details; business owners rattled
Yale Assistant Police Chief Ronnell Higgins said Yale police will add extra patrols along the edges of Old Campus near Crown Street on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights for an undetermined amount of time.
No campus-wide e-mail about shoot-out
Double Take
Federal law requires universities to report certain crimes that take place near their campuses. Yale officials said they are not obligated to report Sunday morning’s incident and students interviewed said they were alarmed by the University’s silence.
One of three College Street gunmen still at large
Two others hospitalized; NHPD chief calls police involvement justified
One of the three gunmen involved in a shootout with police on College Street early Sunday morning fled the scene and has not been caught.
One of three College Street gunmen still at large
Two others hospitalized; NHPD chief calls police involvement justified
One of the three gunmen involved in a shoot-out with police on College Street early Sunday morning fled the scene and has not been caught.
Gunfight breaks out on College Street
Two men hospitalized; 10 to 20 shots fired, witnesses say
A three-way gunfight erupted between two men and police on the intersection of College and Crown streets around 2 a.m. Sunday morning as nearby bars were letting out.
Saybrook student admits to intruding
The Saybrook intruder was... a Saybrook student. In an e-mail sent Friday night, Saybrook Master Paul Hudak and Dean Paul McKinley told Saybrugians that a student has come forward and admitted to entering the suites of other students while they were in bed early Thursday morning.
Saybrook intruder not found
Second spate of incidents for the college this year; intruder could be student
Yale police responded to Saybrook College around 3:30 a.m. in response to a complaint about a suspicious male who entered at least two suites. Nothing was taken, and no one was harmed, according to police.
Intruder enters Saybrook suites
UPDATED: An unidentified intruder entered the bedrooms of sleeping Saybrook students early Thursday morning, according to Saybrook Dean Paul McKinley. “Although he harmed no one and took no property, the master and I are deeply concerned about this incident,” Hudak wrote.
Union says no to ‘no confidence’ vote
The New Haven police union decided Wednesday evening not to hold a department-wide vote of “no confidence” on the leadership of Chief Frank Limon, who took up the post in April.
NHPD chief may face ‘no confidence’ vote
Over the past week the police union president has been publicly accusing the chief of lowering morale with overly harsh, counterproductive rules.
Le family lawyers start own investigation
On the one-year anniversary of Annie Le’s GRD ’13 murder, her family’s lawyer said his team is launching an investigation into the University’s handling of the circumstances surrounding her death.
For case, long road ahead
One year later, no end in sight for Clark case
Raymond Clark III pleaded not guilty to Annie Le’s GRD’13 murder in January, but his lawyers are still reviewing and waiting for all the prosecution’s evidence.
Univ. opposes Security effort to unionize
An effort by Yale Security officers to unionize over the summer was blocked by a federal agency after the University registered its opposition.
City wants bar owners to pay for extra police presence
New detail to cost $500k, business owners to pay $300k
New Haven plans to station more police officers near downtown nightclubs to maintain order on rowdy weekend nights.
YPD salaries can stay private, commission rules
A state commission has ruled that the Yale Police Department is not legally required to disclose how much its top officials are paid. The ruling is a setback for the YPD's union, which will appeal the decision.
West Campus foam spills into river
A burst pipe in a vacant West Campus building Tuesday sent tens of thousands of gallons of foam and water spewing into a nearby river, killing some local wildlife but leaving no lasting environmental damage. A Yale spokesman apologized and accepted responsibility for the spill.
Three students mugged over weekend
Police quickly apprehend suspects
Shortly after muggers struck three Yale students Saturday night, police apprehended three suspects and seized a stolen firearm.
Cops make arrests in 3 murder cases
New Haven Police have made arrests in three murders this summer, but at 16, there have been more murders in New Haven this year than in 2009.
Yale scientist suspected of stealing lab equipment
Yale Police twice this summer searched the Woodbridge, Conn., home of former Yale genome researcher Lars Branden, who is suspected of filching laboratory equipment from the University.
Police make 2 arrests in year's 14th, 15th murders
While 12 other homicides this year remain unsolved, the NHPD have made arrests in the city's 14th and 15th murders of 2010, the most recent of which was Friday, July 30.
Le murder to be featured on TLC's 'Killer on Campus'
Read more after the jump.
State police investigate accident as Che '13 recovers
State police are leading the investigation into how Yonglu Che ’13 was struck by a Yale Police car last Sunday. Che is recovering and reportedly in good spirits.
Scientist suspected in $22K lab equipment theft
Police searched the Woodbridge, Conn., home of Lars Branden — until recently the director of the Yale Center for High Throughput Cell Biology — on June 5 and again three weeks ago, finding laboratory equipment valued at $22,000.
Perrotti takes Boston College post
Just days after formally retiring as head of the Yale Police, James Perrotti has started as interim police chief at Boston College.
Yale psychiatric patient escapes
The New Haven Police Department sent out a warning Thursday afternoon that Hector Delgado, 26, escaped from the Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital on Wednesday by climbing a tree and jumping over the hospital's outer wall.
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