Problem-Bar Bill Heads To Malloy’s Desk

About time!! This is a much need law in many city's in the state. And will help the communitys that these places are located in. If someone lost their license it is because they did something wrong. Maybe now bar owners will think twice and do things right...knowing this loop hole was made a little smaller.

like all laws that intend to crack-down on crime, it should be obvious that the effect of this law is that "problem-bars" are ultimately going to be considered problems based on the skin color and class background of their patrons.
with the disproportionate amount of police abuse that happens at Taurus, as opposed to any other bar downtown, or in the 'burbs, where there are shootings, sexual assaults, gay-bashing, drug use, etc. the ones most likely to be associated with this activity are frankly the black and brown bars.
while the law, like drug laws and many others aren't explicitly racist or white supremacist, the mostly-white, suburban police force, whose main assumptions about black and brown people come from the corporate, capitalist media are going to enforce laws based on who they think is committing them. and if they're watching tv, they're going to think its black and brown people.

Really, Larry Livingston might have just as well have said "no comment" when asked for a quote on this one. He and "his" bar are the whole reason FOR the law, of course he doesn't like it. Guess he has a keen sense of the obvious.

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s about time ....i live in a residential area and all you hear loud music ..yelling pissing on private propety..oh yes and shootings..you say something and they shake there weeny at you... and give you the bird..

"DeStefano dismissed Livingston's criticisms, pointing out that the law requires the commission to consider statements from the police chief, not the mayor."

That is a joke, ... The chief is just a puppet to the mayor

Alright Marian I just want to clarify the last sentence or so. Are you saying cops who watch TV are enforcing the laws based on what they see on TV - as opposed to what they actually see in front of their faces??

I'm saying that a majority of New Haven cops are white, middle class and from the suburbs. Much of their understanding of people of color, it can be assumed, comes from what they see on television, in movies and newspapers- where Black and Brown people are predominantly portrayed as criminals, thugs, drug dealers, gang-bangers, 'illegal' immigrants, unpredictable, rebellious, dangerous, etc. The concept of the 'rebellious negro' dates back to the fear of slave rebellions or slave escapes.
Being conditioned to think of people of color in this way, one would think that this is how these officers are going to treat said communities. Making them more likely to stop and/or arrest people on the basis of their race or economic class, more likely to be hostile and feel the need to assert their authority, be more suspicious (just as a Black dude hanging outside of a store is more likely to get the cops called on him for being suspicious than a white person), feel more entitled to be physically aggressive or violent. Thus reifying the assumption that certain communities contain more criminals than others.
The SWAT raid on elevate is a perfect example. Mostly-white Yale students were the subject of a violent automatic weapons-drawn police raid- the intentions of which where to check for underage drinking. The result was 1 student in the hospital and no longer able to play football after being tased in the neck and many other students arrested for filming or documenting police. This event garnered national and international attention, the students had access to high-profile lawyers, politicians stood by their side- and the innocence of the students was assumed.
Few, if any such assaults on the rights and dignity of those outside the Yale community- working class communities and communities of color seldom get such attention, resources and assumed innocence when they are brutalized by police. Thus- police will feel more entitled to act with force in communities whose needs are largely ignored in the media- because they've already branded those communities as criminal and extracted everyones consent for the police to act without restraint.

Just another modern day "Black Code" ... Lemar is a part of the New Haven political Machine who has done everything against the Black community. Make no mistake I'm not excusing bad behavior, but what about the morally corrupt politicians, making a mockery out of democracy.