Alders Approve $16M Cox Settlement Plan

The Mayor has claimed a surplus, but the under staffing of City positions - 512 according to sources - residents are paying with high taxes and reduced services.
This is why no one answers a phone at City Hall.
It explains why there are insufficient police to enforce the law.
It explains why so many people are unhappy with city services.
It also explains why Yale's paltry contribution of $50 million over a period of years will never produce any tangible benefit to the residents.

The real question is why tax exemptions from the 18th century exist for billion dollar entities that feast off the people of New Haven and give so little back.

Yale pretty much doesn’t have to give a dime to the city. The city took a deal with the devil and are not taxed. 50 million is peanuts to what it costs to run the city. City needs the state to take over. Where did the esser funds go. What are the full range of your taxes being allocated to. Etc etc

@LucaD: Yes. Seriously. Read the 1985 Tax Revision Commission Report and tell me what has changed.
I'll tell you. Yale Corp. and Yale New Haven Health own more tax free land.
The report concluded that Yale entities benefited from the City and not vice-versa.
With so many Yale connected people in government, it is unlikely this inequitable situation will be changed. Not because it can't be, but because Yale will spend millions on lobbyists to defeat such a move.
After all, Yale doesn't want to lose its Davos and World Economic Forum connections.

This issue related to this story is police misconduct, not taxing Yale or anyone else. While Yale should be taxed for some of the non-academic buildings they own. Police brutality is why New Haven must shell out 16 million dollars from its budget here.

@ApizzSavant A number of items have cropped up over the years some hightlights are :

even if Yale was foolish enough to pour good money after bad in New Haven, it would never get to the level where it would help those in need. The looters have built a system where large parts of any funding are skimmed into the pockets of the connected (start with the unions but they are not the only offenders). So, budgets go through the roof, more noise is made that DC, Hartford, Yale, or someone else should help, and all the while the city flounders and the people suffer.

If you are a homeowner, ask yourself, " what do I receive for the $7000, $12,000, or $15,000 that I pay every year? Trash collection once a week and solid fire protection. Police whose hands are tied and don't enforce most laws. City Hall that won't answer the phone. LCI that won't do its job. No real job creation environment. One of the worst education systems in the nation.... and on and on.

Thank you for the wide perspective on this report. And this incident. All those aside, for a moment, as most are valid, a single source of the event, and solution does nothing for the taxpayers, not just in New Haven, but all CT residents, and Federal taxpayers. Yes, we all foot the bill, as the large amounts of money sent to New Haven, for education, and other needs, puts us all in. The "magic" that staff in the controllers office create, allows for them to send the burden of paying these continuous lawsuits, too places in the budget, that take aways for what the money was supposed to be spent on. Each can argue their perspective on the event, but it clouds the core issues of lack of training, supervision, good supervision, and for lack of a safe prisoner conveyance, none of this would have needed to be said. Sorry; it's really that simple. But Supervision, or lack of good supervisors, has brought all of us here. And that took 33 years, to come to fruition. Yes, this is the department that Nick Pastore created. It leaves a nice opening for his desire to return, to "solve" the "problems" that were seeded during his tenure.

Here for the comments from the white supremacists, old-timers, and angry boomers crying about misappropriation of funds, corrupt politicians, lack of police force and Biden crime family. Brb, grabbing some popcorn.

Not sure where the 'woke' folk went, but anyways...it's all about process. They knew that this case drew attention and they also know that the longer it stays unsettled, it will affect other matters, such as campaigns. That said, consider the process as it is the number of departments, and people who had to review this, look at that, approve this and that, that's all part of the process. The ask started at 100 million, but, if you listen or know what the process is behind the case - ironically when corrupt bad cops go up for trial the process is different - you will also recognize that in this case, the City wanted to dot every i and cross every t because they knew and know that entire country is watching and you know, New Haven is not like Chicago, right?

Mr Randy Cox deserves every dime awarded to him so his family can afford to give him the very best of care for the rest of his life. He is a young man and needs constant care for his near total paralysis that leaves him dependent on others to do everything for him.
If the police transport vans had seatbelts, and he had been secured in a seatbelt, this would have never happened.
If the officer driving had stayed where he was when the accident occurred and called for an ambulance immediately, the damage to his spinal column and his paralysis may have been less or could have been treated immediately with better results.
By delaying professional medical treatment, by manhandling him when the police were not professionally trained medical first responders, they most likely created more damage to his injury.
By berating him, not believing in him, and not getting him the medical help he needed, and roughly handling him, they treated him as less than the human being that he is, deserving of appropriate concern and care and dignity as any one else on this earth.
It does not matter what he did to have police take him into custody.
Once you are in police custody you are under their care and they are responsible for your health, well being and safety. They failed in their duty to serve and protect everyone they encounter. They failed Mr Randy Cox.