Posted on 09/30/2009 6:47:47 AM PDT by Puppage
Edited on 09/30/2009 10:36:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Waterbury (AP) - Police in Connecticut say a Waterbury officer's .40-caliber pistol somehow ended up in the hands of criminals and has been linked to five shootings in the New Haven area.
The Republican-American of Waterbury reports that arrest warrants have been issued for Sgt. David Setzer, who is expected to turn himself in at the New Haven police department Wednesday.
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> Well, if pays his union dues and is in the right, they should defend him.
Since when has a union been concerned about whether or not their member is in the right?
Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis' birthday?
so...you just go around to anti-cop threads and cut and paste the same comment over and over? lame.
Defend him from what? If his guns were stolen there should be nothing to defend. If he purposely let criminals have them then that is a different matter, but until we find out what actually occurred other than some guns being stolen, this guy shouldn’t be condemned.
Completely arbitary date. New Haven has been a pit for longer than I can remember.
Yes, New Haven is a pretty crappy city, unless you stay within a pretty much 5-block radius of Yale center campus.
Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School," passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701.
Maybe the COP is the real criminal. Disarm them ALL.
A white center (the Yale campus) that stays in the middle, surrounded by a very black, crummy, messy outside.
You see, Yale is right smack in the center of New Haven. You have to go to the outskirts to live safely although around the Yale campus it did not used to be too bad except for the occaisional robbery/murder. Property taxes have gone through the roof, making those nice homes in the Amity neighborhood way overtaxed to pay for the welfare scum in the rest of the city.
The racial makeup of the county was 79.40% White, 11.32% Black or African American, 0.25% Native American, 2.33% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.51% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races.
(That statistic is for the COUNTY - not JUST the city. A stroll through New Haven [outside of the Yale campus] would reveal that in an instant.)
That African American 11.32% resides mostly within the city of New Haven itself in neighborhoods that you do not traverse at night. A walk throug parts of Fair Haven, Newhallville, near St. Raphael's hospital at night is probably as reckless as a similar walk through Baghdad or Kabul...
Setzer lives in New Haven and police say some of his personal guns ended up in the hands of convicted felons; the weapons used in five street shootings including last December on Humphrey Street when multiple shots were fired.
Shell casings traced the weapon right back to Setzer who detectives say never reported the gun stolen and even now cannot explain how the guns got into the wrong hands.
“This is just a mistake. We’ll take it up in court,” said Cannatelli.
Setzer has been on the Waterbury force for 17-years and has a spotless record including recommendations. Now, he is suspended with pay pending the outcome of the internal investigation.
New Haven had that slummy scummy rep even 30 years ago
The campus sounds alot like Atlantic city. I went there a few years back. I was rather surprised that it was an island surrounded by a sea of slums. But , even dilapidated, you could get a sense of how beautiful it must have been ( a long long time ago ). I just don’t get it. If I moved into a victorian mansion, the first thing I would do is find a way to fix it up.
No.
You are wrong.
The first thing you would do would be to take out a huge loan to pay your overinflated and enormous property tax bill.
To be sure, there are still some beautiful homes in New Haven - even near Yale...
But the tax bill on the one I linked above would be somewhere between $35,000.00 (if they still use a 70% assessment value) and $49,000.00 per year based on New Haven's Mill Rate.
No thanks.
I almost bought a beautiful tudor home in New Haven years ago... thank God I did not, the tax assessors went mad almost immediatly afterwards and I would have lost a fortune.
That is really expensive. Houses in the suburbs of Cleveland are a lot cheaper! That house would run about 300,000-400,000 in the nicer suburbs. How can people afford this? What does the bad part of town look like?
I’m not ignorant, It’s just that in our area we get alot more bang for our buck...check it out
http://www.homefinder.com/OH/Broadview_Heights/54216541d_2331_Fordham_Ln
This home is not too far from us...and this isn’t even the “rich” part.
How do you survive the property taxes out there?
I moved out of the area almost 20 years ago! That's how!
4000 miles away.
Best move I ever made. :)
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