100+ Call For Action vs. Rising Crime

Wasn't KDW bragging a few weeks ago about how she illegally shut down a highway to protest police?

This is the protest I believe KDW was referring to being proud of having participated in, led by the likes of NHLAA's Kerry Ellington, who believe New Haven is over-policed.
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/protest2/

Follow KDW and Kerry Ellington and continue to cut policing budgets and staff, tie their hands, and tell them to look away from the small stuff. Who is this elite who mandates for others what they will not tolerate for themselves. If I had known; I would have attended.

And I wish NH would give up copying others. We have our own issues and strengths and can find our own solutions. NH is not Minneapolis and people don't want the chaos and violence of mass looting and even more criminal acts.
Those who want less police presence-- step forward and admit YOU ARE WRONG. THEN; let's move on to solve this.

Yeah, the Highway being shut down a year ago is why people pick up guns now and commit crimes.

1644- Isn't this the same KDW that held a press conference a month ago indicating the current acting FEMALE chief has got to go? How Chief Dominguez can stomach having to do these community events with her 'ouster' is amazing! Go Chief, go! Keep up the good work.

alex..no. but emptying the jails and relaxing the penalties for juveniles has contributed to the problem in many ways.

and so does pretending police are the primary problem, another position where youre on the wrong side of the issue.

No Dennis, you are wrong, if you were right crime would have been lower when we had twice as many people in prison.

It's interesting how conservatives hate government and find it ineffective except when it is shackling and brutalizing Black people.

There are no easy solutions even though part-time activists feel better after a meeting. The young woman who said she wanted to see something physical was right on. But, we need to hire more cops. We need to get more recruits in the training cycle and residents should stop confusing snitching with witnessing. More cameras too. Finally parents and family elders need to step up their game. Mayors have limited control over the family factors.

Alex - The police brass AND the liberal mayor have both attributed the recent rise in VIOLENT crime to the early release of prisoners.

Who among these activists has the credibility or skills to address this problem? We give too much credit to people who schedule press conferences to show what they care about and point out what police officers and city leaders should do,and too little credit to those who work behind the scenes to reach out to troubled youth and at least try to help them become more productive and less violent, or even nonviolent. They are the volunteer coaches, mentors, and big brother, big sister, and parent figures who use their time and treasure to make a difference. Some are officers, teachers, and other professionals and working class citizens who care about our community. Go into the schools and community and identify kids that need your help. Reach out to their families for consent and ask some of the people who care to contribute something as well. Start with one kid and take it to additional ones. Programs like LEAP, Believe in Me, Boys and Girls Clubs, the Monk Center, the Edgewood After School Programs and HOLLA have shown some success. The really hardcore kids have to be left to the police, Leonard Jahad, Pepe, Stacey Spell, and Juneboy. The hardcore need to be put on notice that this community will use all means within the law to either help them or lock them up. And, being a juvenile cannot be used as an excuse for leniency. We are in desperate times in all sectors of our country and we must identify, support, and if necessary lock up threats to our city. Full stop.

Dennis — they're wrong too.

" citywide initiatives being taken to stem violence, including Project Longevity, Project Safe Neighborhoods, and an increase in walking beats."
" Youth employment programs, according to city youth worker Ronald Huggins, were able to offer summer jobs to every applicant for the first time this year."
"Magaly Cajigas, who recounted growing up amid violence in the Hill. "We need to come together, start having vigils, rallying, walking in a group."
"It takes a village," added Trel Morrison, who works with young men in a mentorship program and lost a mentee to gun violence. "Bring the village back — it takes all of us."
" Officers, in turn, begged the community to help them do their jobs. Assistant Chief Karl Jacobson asked those present to call 866-888-TIPS with any information, and also identify friends and relatives living in the city who could be a part of upcoming classes of new officers.
"The police need you," he said. "Everyone in this room: please become recruitment officers for the NHPD. We can't get people from New Haven without you."

• All of the above will help, along with the prisoner re-entry program to help people change their lives and to avoid falling back into their former ways. also decriminalizing illegal drugs to destroy the crime associated with the illegal profits from them.
  We also need to increase access to substance abuse care and mental healthcare. At the same time we are recruiting more police from the city, we should be encouraging more young students to consider mental health careers to help address the underlying issues that cause crime. We need more black and brown counselors, therapists and substance abuse caregivers.
  Conscience's comments speak the truth. We can't expect politicians or police to fix this by themselves, they need all of us to help by standing up, speaking out, volunteering, saying no more, and insisting on funding for programs that help prevent people from falling through the cracks of society.

Dennis

Crime isn't better with a republicans either .

The Chief referenced an increase in gang activity as one of the reasons for the street violence. Well it logically follows that the police officers should target the gang leaders and constant offenders. Stamp them out and in a public manner. Use existing laws against the gangs such as the Corrupt Organization and Racketeering Act
(CORA).

Don't let Community Activists call any shots. The usual characters. This is a police matter and the community can assist by providing info. Community Activists have agendas and police rarely will trust them

There are 12 Apostles. Period.

Community based policing is best effective when the communities are organized and United to fight crime in collaboration with the police.
The wisest initial move to confront this crisis is to organize community block watches in every block in this city. Train people how to work with police to fight crime by being eyes and ears for law enforcement. This will send a clear message to criminals that city residents are serious.
Enough of the blame game and the finger pointing.
Enough of the grandstanding, the fear mongering, and the politicization of this matter.
Let's begin to work together to find solutions to such mulifaceted,complex. problems as gun violence, which is NOT just perpetrated by young people in this city!

There will be an inverse correlation with Condom Use and Crime. Condom Use goes up and crime will go down. Condom use at current levels and crime will persist. I write that because most folks won't know what an inverse correlation is. New Haven has been having these same discussion, marches, planting gardens, lighting candles for decades and decades. The solutions people bring are mainly more money thrown at various programs and efforts that never work. Develop the condom that feels as natural as can be and you have your answer. Otherwise you will continue to have those kids with no fathers who run wild on the streets 24/7. New Haven is the Jerry Springer Show and they don't even know it.

Elm City Communities' Ruoppola Manor on Ferry St needs to be dealt with. How can the Karen DuBois- Walton make demands while her tenants are being terrorized in a Housing Authority owned property?

The outpouring of concern for gun violence in New Haven can reverse this trend, and it is in the power of the people's actions that can make this happen.

Poverty is the basis for the street and gun crime we are experiencing in New Haven right now.

Until we have a fully employed population of people making living wages, this will continue.

The underlying source of this problem is capitalism going for the biggest bang for the buck by outsourcing jobs that could be done by New Haven workers.

One outsourcing company, Virtual Employee says, "OUTSOURCE TO INDIA from JUST $5 TO $12/HOUR!

BIZ FLUENT SAYS, "Depending on your needs and type of business, you may outsource manufacturing services, operational services, process-specific services or professional services such as accounting and IT support. For example, your advertising agency could outsource bookkeeping, web design or customer service. If you don't want to commit to a long-term contract, you can only hire contractors for projects where specific skills are needed. Research popular companies that outsource services so you can better understand how this process works".

As our community takes a whack at this problem locally, the tires on the wheels of capitalism roll right over us from our impoverished neighborhoods to impoverished (by capitalism also) neighborhoods that capitalism has already created.

It is obvious. We need another way to reconstruct our society.

We need large cooperative businesses where there is no capitalist at the top to skim off the profits created by the labors of those below.

Let's chip in and buy Walmart and make it into a cooperative where equality reigns, not Waltons who don't pay their workers a living wage.

Many small businesses can be transformed now into cooperatives where the members do the work and share the profits. And, there are organizations of cooperatives in MA to show you how.

And, who knows better how to make profits than the workers who create the wealth?

posted by: The Good Old Days on September 13, 2021 10:05am
There will be an inverse correlation with Condom Use and Crime. Condom Use goes up and crime will go down. Condom use at current levels and crime will persist. I write that because most folks won't know what an inverse correlation is.

Wow.You sound William Bennett, education secretary under Ronald Reagan Who said.If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose; you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

3/5's: Was he wrong? BTW, I don't think Bennett was advocating the policy, just stating a fact. I am pretty sure Bennett is a pro-life Catholic.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/calm-down-bennetts-comments-abortion-have-been-taken-way-out-context-0149.html
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Politics/story?id=1171385&page=1

posted by: 1644 on September 13, 2021 3:07pm

3/5's: Was he wrong? BTW, I don't think Bennett was advocating the policy, just stating a fact. I am pretty sure Bennett is a pro-life Catholic.


Yes He was wrong.In fact.George Bush distanced himself from Bennett comments.The comments even brought condemnation from all sides.

Bill Bennett's Abortion Fantasies
What's really shocking about Bill Bennett's public fantasies of reducing crime by aborting black babies is the ease with which conservative critics cast lawlessness in racial terms.

@Offtherails: To lower crime, it all depends on the approach and commitment of the person and the team in charge. Say what you will about Rudy Guiliani now, but when he was mayor of NYC, crime was reduced dramatically - Republican, conservative. Mike Bloomberg, followed and crime continued to remain low - Democrat, moderate. Bill de Blasio then followed, and crime became as bad as it ever was - Democrat, progressive/liberal.

ALEX ROSE...the economy was amazing good during the administrations of Guiliani and Bloomberg.

Guiliani can be credited with making a dent in the mafia/syndicates, however, their crimes are GENERALY within the mafia. That's what a close NYC friend just told me.

The more prosperous the town/city for everyone, not just the rich, the less crime.

Here in CT we need only to compare the crime rate in Westport, Darien and other rich White towns with cities like New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport where the majority of people are not rich WHITE people.

White rich people have money to pay for the solutions to the crime they get into, however, their crimes are mostly protected by the amount of money they can donate to political candidates who can create laws where the White people's money works for them, whereas, the working people cannot afford lobbyists and politicians to work for them because the politicians do not get enough in political donations from the poor to do much other than pass legislation that has no money attached to it.

That's how capitalism works.

Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the working class.

@wesunidad: I would urge you to read up on what many critics and analysts have said regarding the real reasons why crime, (not just mafia crime and not just a better economy) declined dramatically in NYC under Guiliani and Bloomberg. A recipe for some real success indeed. There are many more studies and papers that attest (note the two listed below), to what actually needs to be done to get a city safe and under control. Peace.
https://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/what-reduced-crime-new-york-city
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-new-york-became-safe-full-story-13197.html

posted by: Alex Rose on September 14, 2021 8:35am

@Offtherails: To lower crime, it all depends on the approach and commitment of the person and the team in charge. Say what you will about Rudy Guiliani now, but when he was mayor of NYC, crime was reduced dramatically

LOL!!! Rudy Guiliani used The Broken Windows Policy which was a Racist Mess,And cost the Taxpayers of New York Big Money from the Lawsuits that was paid out to people who was Victims of The Broken Windows Policy.

Guiliani can be credited with making a dent in the mafia/syndicates, however, their crimes are GENERALY within the mafia. That's what a close NYC friend just told me.

LOL!!! Guiliani should have went after his Father.My friend the late Wayne Barrett reported Harold Giuliani also allegedly 'broke legs, smashed kneecaps [and] crunched noses' when he served as a 'muscle' for a for a loansharking operation in the 1950s, and got in a Brooklyn gunfight in the 1960s,

Barrett: Christie and Giuliani Both Share Mob Family Ties — And Not Coming Clean About It

https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/09/24/barrett-christie-and-giuliani-both-share-mob-family-ties-and-not-coming-clean-about-it/

Republican, conservative. Mike Bloomberg, followed and crime continued to remain low

LOL.He used Stop And Frisk and it cost the Taxpayers of New York Big money payouts.

Stop-and-Frisk Cost NYC $1 Billion in Civil Suits over Police Misconduct While Bloomberg Was Mayor

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/27/stop_frisk_cost_nyc_1_billion


Take it from an activist who was there: Stop and frisk cost New Yorkers their lives

Bloomberg's history with the racist policy is more troubling than you know.

"Throw them up against a wall and frisk 'em." —Mike Bloomberg

https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/2/14/21136892/stop-and-frisk-bloomberg-activist

Part One

Part Two

Never say the name Rudy Giuliani to New York City firefighters.

Firefighters Dispute Giuliani's 9/11 Record
11.19.2007
NEW YORK– A group of New York City firefighters and their families traveled to New Hampshire Monday to try to collapse the image of America s Mayor heroically leading New York City in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The group, 9/11 Firefighters and Families, contends that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani made poor decisions before the day of the attack that left firefighters ill-prepared to respond when two planes hit the World Trade Center. They fault him for the deaths of their firefighter colleagues and sons, who perished when the towers collapsed.

There were needless people that died that day, said Jim Riches, deputy chief of the New York City Fire Department, whose son died in the attacks. And to see this man turn around now and say he did a great job preparing us and having leadership that day? It was lacking, and there was none. . . . Now he s trying to parlay it into the presidency of the United States. . . . He did nothing, and it doesn t qualify him to be president of the United States.

https://www.jems.com/operations/firefighters-dispute-giulianis/

THREEFIFTHS: You are posting about everything but what the facts and the many published studies say about Guiliani's and Bloomberg's successful very tough campaigns against crime. You have to decide if you want crime and killings in your neighborhoods or deal with crime full-on in order to make it safer for all the good people, blacks, whites, browns et al. Do your homework and read the many studies conducted about Guiliani's and Bloomberg's part in significantly reducing crime in NYC. Not talking about 9/11 here. Your hate for Guiliani and Bloomberg no doubts precludes you from seeing what they and their teams accomplished in what was then a very dangerous city.

posted by: Alex Rose on September 14, 2021 6:02pm
THREEFIFTHS: You are posting about everything but what the facts and the many published studies say about Guiliani's and Bloomberg's successful very tough campaigns against crime.

And the fact I had posted did not show Guiliani's and Bloomberg's successful very tough campaigns against crime.Read this study.

Bloomberg said 'stop and frisk' decreased crime. Data suggests it wasn't a major factor in cutting felonies.

A Washington Post analysis of crime patterns and other academic research found that major felonies declined during Bloomberg's three terms from 2002 through 2013, but the reduction did not correspond to the increase in stops by police.

Crime has continued to fall since a federal judge deemed the practice an unconstitutional violation of civil rights in 2013. The disconnect suggests that an increase or decrease in crime happened largely for reasons independent of the aggressive expansion of the policy.


You have to decide if you want crime and killings in your neighborhoods or deal with crime full-on in order to make it safer for all the good people, blacks, whites, browns et al.

You must have not read my post which I said this.

I will say it again.H. Rap Brown. "Violence is as American as cherry pie."

Gun violence will never cease in america because america has a gun problem.Not just a shooting problem.The problem is america is the most easiest place to buy firearms on the planet.Look at each states laws on how to get a firearm.In fact There are more guns than people in the United States.If you would look at the gun violence archive 2021which I look at every day.it will show you shootings in all 50 states.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/total-number-of-incidents

Part One.

Part Two.

Also.I will say it again.Blacks kill Blacks well, the same reasons why Italians kill Italians, Polish kill Polish, Irish kill Irish, Latino kill Latino and ect... (money, gang activity, jealousy, crime, extortion, and many other worthless/foolish reasons.People kill each other. Period. It's been the case for thousands and thousands of years.Again. white folk kill other white folk, Asian folk kill other Asians, etc.Let a mob boss get sick of his uncle running shit. Some disgruntled young white boy will go into a school in his own neighborhood and wipe out half the population, The Russian Mafia referred to as Bratva (brothers and/or brotherhood), In Brooklyn New York do each other in Brighton Beach. It ain't just us Black folks.We're the only ones the media focuses on.

The most effective violent crime reduction strategy must also address the illegal trafficking of firearms.How come the police donot focus on the illegal trafficking of firearms.

You keep saying.Guiliani's and Bloomberg's part in significantly reducing crime in NYC.They broke the Law.Stop-and-Frisk Cost NYC $1 Billion in Civil Suits over Police Misconduct While Bloomberg Was Mayor

Even Bloomberg said this.
Bloomberg apologizes for 'stop-and-frisk' police practice
Addressing a black church in Brooklyn, Bloomberg said he was "sorry" and acknowledged it often led to the detention of blacks and Latinos.

"I can't change history," Bloomberg told the congregation. "However today, I want you to know that I realize back then I was wrong."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bloomberg-apologizes-stop-frisk-police-practice-67087051

I guess there must be a lot of criminals in NH if the mayor needs to pander to them and ignore law-abiding citizens with his anticop, anti crime prevention stance.