Eight Days, Four Homicides

the lack of comments here may reflect the fact that so many of us are numb from the overwhelming violence and loss of life.
I don't understand why there is no State of Emergency that would send aid to the NHPD and the City.
We just authorized $110 billion for Ukraine, but where are the resources to keep US safe right here?
School children in buses have been in the crossfire!
The NHPD is reportedly understaffed.
What is the Mayor doing to bring new resources to this emergency?
What is the Governor prepared to send New Haven to stop the slaughter?
No one should tolerate this situation, but I am not seeing anything new and different being done.

Spot on Patricia!!

The reason the State isn't doing anything is because it would embarrass the Democratic politicos.

Past hiring policies/decisions in Police leadership and beyond by Elicker led to hardly any homicides being solved. Hardly surprising that they are on the rise. Jacobsen should have been hired earlier and Elicker should have dedicated more resources to the police for detectives. New Mayor now!

Patricia you are right. We are numb to all the violence. It's sad. This is what we have to live with. the fear I have is my kids walking down the street getting shot. I'm with my kids all the time. But my high school son walk from school to my job or from the bus home. there have been shootings on that path. This is the fear. New Haven and all the people gathering after the fact and the comments we always say enough is enough. Nothing Changes.

Another human being lost to gun violence. Yet more friends and family and coworkers in mourning for the terrible loss of their loved ones.
We have to stop the carnage.
Stand up, speak out, say no more.

Wait a minute!! Wait just one minute!! When I opined exhaustively about Elicker's inability to be mayor of the City of New Haven, I was attacked by his sycophant's ad nauseum. Where are his defenders now?

I labeled him (Elicker) 'The Experiment' for a reason. Now it's time for the remnants of what is left of this disastrous administration to come to an end. New Haven deserves better.

The idea that putting the emphasis on concrete buildings, and ignoring the marginalized as an approach to making the city better, will backfire hugely on those who endorse this plan.

The death of this young man is emblematic of a level of violence that hovers over the lives of young Black children citywide. And because they are Black, the silence of even Black people in the city is deafening. If these were white young men being slaughtered in this fashion, the city would be in an uproar. Sadly, the only time our Black organizations rise up to address the killings of Black men is when they are killed by white police officers. But the pain endured by the families upon hearing of the death of a loved one is identical.

Will the real leadership, please stand up?

And where is the Mayor, the BOA, and the media when it comes to highlighting and reporting on the deaths from overdoses and fentanyl? The number of people dying from drugs is exponentially higher.

I"ve asked the city and nhpd to include these stats in the regular COMPSTAT reports, but to no avail.

Why is it that nobody cares? We see the obituaries in the NHR of the young people dying but nobody is keeping count, and nobody seems to care.

Paul...PLEASE start tracking the numbers and reporting on these deaths that are wiping out an entire generation.

@ Dennis,
Those deaths will never be posted because the vast majority of them are non-Black. Years ago, that other NH paper would post the names of all who were being arrested on drug charges in NH. Why did they stop? I'm glad you asked. They stopped because 75% of those arrested were white and from outside of the city. Conversely, if it were the other way around, they would be STILL posting those names.