Posted on 08/22/2023 4:11:11 PM PDT by matt04
Flyers distributed by the union that represents Yale police officers have caused a stir among city and Yale police officials, who say they contain "inaccurate and irresponsible information" and are "aimed at inciting fear and public safety concerns among new students."
The flyers, which officials said were created and distributed by the Yale Police Benevolent Association, "were distributed during Yale University’s annual move-in day this past weekend and aimed to create fear and stoke public safety concerns among new students and their families," an advisory notice said.
The officials, including Mayor Justin Elicker, city Police Chief Karl Jacobson, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell and members of the Board of Alders, joined other community members to address their concerns Tuesday on the steps of Yale's Woolsey Hall at 500 College St.
The flyer, with contains a drawing of a skull — which Elicker said was copied, right down to the skull drawing, from a 1970s flyer distributed by a New York City police union — says "the incidence of crime and violence in New Haven is shockingly high, and it is getting worse."
"During the seven month period ending July 23, 2023, murders have doubled, burglaries are up 33% and motor vehicle thefts are up 56%," the flyer says. It advises students to "stay off the streets after 8 p.m.," not walk alone and avoid public transportation and remain on campus whenever possible, among other other things.
(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...
“Don’t go north of Popeyes”.
Ah, all this from the home of Skull and Bones (producing the bushies) 322 Society.
Control the crime rather than attacking those who talk about the crime.
Did they mention climate change hysteria?
Pointing out crime is racist. Bring 45 back already
Good advice. It's all 'hood from there to Beaver Hills.
New Haven is loaded with domestic and imported scum of many types. It really needs to be cleansed.
Well this raises an interesting point of discussion.
Did they in fact try to refute the statistics ? Did they suggest there isn’t a problem?
If not, what is the problem, then? Well here’s the problem.
University types (apart from the greedheads, who don’t want to scare off prospective students or their parents who are paying for their education) all too often have a certain specific worldview that has never comported with reality.
Student safety then, is less important than anything that might disturb their carefully nurtured delusions and fairy tales. Rather than adjust their beliefs, they are in effect willing to sacrifice students on the altar of “political correctness”. Dalrymple posited this axiom as “Your death before their dishonor”, and this looks to be a good example as any.
New Haven had been a s@&$hole for decades. It was getting bad reputation on the 80s and was going down hill from there. The immediate blocks around Yale were not that bad but it has gotten terrible since. It’s a weird dichotomy that Yale is a bastion of protection and just across the street not so much so. I was reading Yale had been buying the area of the city around themselves to upscale the neighborhood but I don’t know how far they got. Pity, it was a good town once.
I was in New Haven last in early spring, when Yale was still in session. As i visited at late afternoon into the night it was seasonably cool so not as many people were out in the area of Yale. However, based on the closed or nearly empty business you could tell it was having issues.
Ha.
Setting was NY, not New Haven, but remember the cab driver (secretly a spy for the villain) asking James Bond in Live and Let Die
“You know where you goin’?”
Bond:”I believe we’re going uptown.”
Cabbie: “Uptown? You goin’ to Harlem.”
Related....
https://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
Scroll down to “Scaring the Ivy Leaguers”.
And read the comments if time allows.
I will definitely go look at it. I’m glad to see second city cop is back.
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