Murder Arrestee Had
Just Completed Probation

Well done NHPD. Thanks.

Thank you for highlighting every single one of these horrendously similar, horrendously frequent acts of violence, almost all of which involve firearms. Please continue to do so; we should be forced to confront them, and not allowed to just shrug them off as part of the background in our lives.

Excellent work, New Haven Police. Overwhelming focus on those who commit violent crime (and their cohorts) is a brilliant use of resources. Congratulations.

Sadly, as someone suggested in another recent article on New Haven homicides, the excellent police work comes after-the-fact. We have to ask ourselves if we are content with justice or do we need to reach deeper to stem these incidences. I agree with a commenter above, we must not allow this violence to become an acceptable part of our community landscape. Like wallpaper that becomes invisible, the lives that are cut down and become statistics-so many words on paper. Families are left to pick up the pieces, but what do they do with them? We must nip this trend now. What do our leaders need to turn this around? What plan do our social health care professionals and clergy have to say about this? Perhaps the investigation will yield some answers, but either way, action is called for. There is great frustration in not having the answers to the vexing violence at hand. Sincere condolences to the families and to the city.

One has to question the wisdom of the "hook em and book em" mentality, especially when done with such speed. How strong could a case be if it's only compiled in 24-48 hours? Wouldn't such haste cause the investigators to make mistakes and/or omissions? It seems that the new chief wants to present a certain image to the public and in doing so he might be diminishing the integrity of the cases brought before the Court. While this tactic makes for good press, it makes for lousy justice.

As usual, during a big Press Conference to announce an arrest, the third floor (Chiefs and Detectives) give very little credit to the second floor (Patrol Officers).

It was a Patrol Officer, who has worked for many years in Westville, along with a Patrol Supervisor, who gave the name of the suspect to the Detectives. On almost every homicide and major incident, it is the Patrol Officers who produce the leads that the Detectives run down.

I do not see the Patrol Officers on this case either mentioned or in a photograph. Were they there? Were they even cited/mentioned during the Press Conference?

There is no "I" in Team, but there is in ISD.

It is easy to be critical, and this is what comes to mind when I read some of the critics comments below. In a theoretical society, or when one resides in New Haven, the animal lab of all of Yale's Social, Psychological, Medical, and Urban Management expirements for the past 100 years, these type of arguments make sense, for academics. The problem with Academics is they feel the collateral damage that occurs while they futz around, forming commitees and arguing over punctuation in their thesis, is acceptable.

An example is the criticism that the arrest was too "fast". The problem is that if a "predator" has graduated from Robbery to Muerder with a firearm, while the academics think about what to do this person could go out and kill several more people. And this has happened in New Haven several times in the past 30 years. Just research the young men arrested for multiple murder in New Haven, then examine how long it took for them to be arrested, and you will begin to see the correlation.

Now if one believes that additional deaths of inner city residents is nothing to be concerned about, then their foundation for thought on the subject is corrupted, as every life has value.

As to the other suggested aspects of getting the tens of thousands of inner city residents who are the living victims of these murders; the Mothers, Fathers, Sisters, Brothers, Children, Grandparents, , Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, Schoolmates, and Neighbors, mental health care, so they do not perpetuate the tolerance for Murder by Gun, as they see no other alternative, it was tried, partially, through the Yale Child Study's help. But this was abandoned, and no one ever produced any statistics to determine if their approach was effective.

It is a possibility that there is a need by huge effort by everyone, the academics, the politicians, the police, those that Manage the Police, the spiritual leaders, and particularly the people who not only live in tough neighborhoods, but by those in the suburbs. Without this unity, where no one criticizes any efforts to stop the violence as wrong or inappropriate, the violence will never stop. This depends on those tasked with finding a solution. You cannot go into this with the goal of solving the problem so you can recognized as the genius that finally fixed it, for a resume builder.