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7 May, 2018 – PERSON SHOT

At 2:20 PM, Officers responded to the 100 block of Henry Street to investigate a reported shooting. The caller, a thirty-five year old New Haven woman, phoned police as she was being driven to the hospital. She said she’d been shot on Henry Street. The city’s ShotSpotter® system alerted to the gunfire.

The shooter was said to have been in a 2012 grey Audi. Detectives are following several leads and believe the victim was specifically targeted by the shooter. The investigation continues

New haven ,CT Community walk 5/4/18

Neighborhood leaders organize "community walk" with cops to build trust NEWS 8 Story

New Haven| In 1991, The New Haven Police Department partnered with The Yale Child Study Center to form the renowned Child Development-Community Policing Program.

In New Haven, mental health professionals are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week and ride with officers on the second shift, to respond immediately to police calls involving child victims or witnesses to violence. Working together, police, mental health professionals, child protective service and other providers, coordinate multi-system interventions that re-establish safety, security and well-being in the immediate wake of violent events. CD-CP has served as a model for law enforcement-mental health partnerships around the world. This work also led to the development of the only evidence-based early family strengthening mental health treatment – the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention.

As pioneers in the collaboration between mental health professionals and police officers, both the YCSC and NHPD have hosted informative visits to police health care agencies for years. The collaboration between YCSC and NHPD led to the development of a national toolkit to enhance officer’s capacity to respond to children and families exposed to violence http://www.theiacp.org/Portals/0/documents/pdfs/CEVToolkitOnlineVersion.pdf

Beginning Tuesday, 1 May, 2018, visitors from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in Missouri will be visiting New Haven to study the 

practices of the CDCP program. SLMPD members will be assigned to ride along with officers and clinicians on their tours of duty and participate in the multi-agency weekly meeting at the YCSC at the Yale School of Medicine.

PRESS EVENT ◊

WHEN: Wednesday, 2 May at 10:30 AM

WHERE: Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Road, in the Senn Conference Room

WHAT: Program Meeting

WHO: YCSC mental health care professionals, NHPD rank & file officers and command staff and visitors from the SLMPD

Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport , Waterbury youths Contact New Haven Youth services and ask about Ct Big 4 Basketball Ballout 2018 to sign up your team. 
Also looking for sponsors for event. 
Family funday on the green

Department of Youth Services
165 Church St. 
New Haven, CT
p: (203) 946 - 7582
f: (203) 946 - 5750

RANDY SALVATORE CEO & President

(New Haven, CT – April 30, 2018)- Mayor Toni N. Harp will be joined tomorrow afternoon by state Department of Housing Commissioner Evonne Klein, members of the New Haven Board of Alders, representatives from the city’s Livable Cities Initiative, & principles of the RMS Companies for a ceremonial groundbreaking to start the first phase of the Hill-to-Downtown Community Plan.

Tueday event is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. at 22 Gold Street in New Haven. 

NHPD OFFICER PLACED ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE

New Haven| Police Chief Anthony Campbell has launched an internal investigation into alleged improprieties of Patrol Sergeant Brian McDermott. This investigation involves off-duty conduct and is a personnel matter being addressed by the department’s Internal Affairs Unit.

Until this investigation is concluded, Sgt. McDermott will remain on paid administrative leave.

It is the policy of the New Haven Police Department and the City of New Haven to withhold details of such investigations while they are ongoing.

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Amidori
Mar 2016

MAYOR HARP, STATE DIGNITARIES, CITY OFFICIALS TO PRESIDE AT RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY MONDAY AT FORT HALE PARK PIER

New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp expects to be joined Monday morning by Governor Malloy, DEEP Commissioner Klee, Senate President Looney, state Representative Paolillo, alders, and other officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony, signaling the long-awaited reopening of the once storm-damaged, now rebuilt Fort Hale Park pier.

Monday morning’s event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 at the foot of the pier – 24 Fort Hale Park Road – in New Haven. 

The Fort Hale Park pier was irreparably damaged in 2012 by Hurricane Sandy; state bonding worth $1.8 million was secured in 2015 to underwrite reconstruction of the extremely popular and picturesque fishing and leisure time location.

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New Haven vet heads west to begin opportunity of a lifetime in boxing’s premier fight capital of Nevada

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (April 19^th, 2018) – The window of opportunity in boxing can close quickly. Jimmy Williamsknows this.

After his wife, Christina, gave birth to twin boys in September, the New Haven, Conn., welterweight decided it was time to make a move before his own window slammed shut.

The 31-year-old Williams, still fighting under the promotional guidance of CES Boxing, his original promoter since he turned pro in 2013, changed managers and trainers, rewiring his inner circle in an effort to move one step closer to his goal of winning a world title in 2018.

With a six-week training camp in Nevada in the books, Williams makes his West Coast debut Friday night at the Cox Pavillion in Las Vegas when he faces Houston’s Marquis Taylor (8-1) in the co-main event on the beIN Sports network, an event promoted by Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions. The show is headlined by a North American Boxing Association (NABA) bantamweight title showdown between Max Ornelas and Juan Antonio Lopez.

This is Williams’ first fight since he began training with the renownedEddie Mustafa Muhammad and his first under the managerial guidance ofTowan Butler, a Nevada native referred to Williams through a family friend.

“We just clicked from Day 1,” Williams said of Butler. “He has the same hunger as me.”

The only constant is the unwavering support of CES Boxing and presidentJimmy Burchfield Sr., who remain in Williams’ corner as he embarks on a major career move.

“I just felt like I needed to get better,” Williams said. “With everything going in my life, my family, my twins, I needed a change. I needed to get better. No knock on anybody else, but I needed to improve my career.

“If I didn’t have my boys, I might not have made this decision, but the time is now. I want to give them the best life possible.”

Muhammad, a former world champion who won 50 fights before retiring in 1988, has worked with a myriad of fighters through the years. He guided fellow New Haven fighter Chad Dawson to the light heavyweight world championship, led Iran Barkley to a win over Thomas Hearns in 1992 and coached underdog Michael Bentt in a stunning victory over then-world champion Tommy Morrison in 1993. He is now training Williams out of the Mayweather Boxing Club in Vegas, which Williams says brought out the best in him during his six-week camp.

“There’s so much world-class talent there. Fighters. Trainers. Every sparring match is like a fight,” Williams said. “Everyone is going hard. The whole crowd, the press, everyone is watching you. If you want to be the best, this is how you make a name for yourself by being around the best.”

The New Jersey native Williams made Connecticut his home after playing football at Connecticut State University. Under CES Boxing’s guidance, Williams captured the World Boxing Council United States National Boxing Council (WBC USNBC) welterweight title in 2017 and has only one blemish on his record – a 2013 draw against Greg Jackson.

Nevada has become his second home. The atmosphere in Vegas is addictive. For the past four decades, Sin City has been the boxing capital of the world. It’s become to boxers what packing your belonging and traveling to Hollywood is for aspiring actors or actresses.

“It’s definitely a fight town,” Williams said. “Everybody is going hard. Everyone wants to make it. Everyone wants to be somebody. There’s a dogfight everywhere you go.”

Being away from his family hasn’t been easy – “I Facetime my wife and my boys every night,” Williams said – but his wife has been supportive as he works to build a solid foundation for their future, plus he has other family members and friends from New Jersey and New Haven flying out west to attend tomorrow’s fight. He eventually hopes to move he and his family to Nevada so he no longer has to travel for camp.

“It’s going to feel like I’m back in New Haven when the bell rings,” he said.

Taylor presents a tough challenge. The 24-year-old Houston native recently fought former world champion Kermit Cintron in February, a fight that ended in a no contest due to a cut over Cintron’s eye stemming from an accidental headbutt. Taylor also boasts wins over the previously-unbeaten Oscar Torres and Philadelphia vet Vincent Floyd.

“He’s a tall, slick boxer. Comes to fight. It’s a big challenge for me,” Williams said of Taylor. “This is a good fight for me to showcase my boxing skills. I’m looking forward to it. It’s a big fight in my career.”

Williams made a lot of changes, but hopes the payoff is monumental at the end of the year, perhaps in the form of a world title shot. Moving to Vegas, the fight capital of the world, could be the lift he needs to make sure that proverbial window of opportunity doesn’t close too soon.

“I’m a dedicated, hard worker. I’m a champion. I’m going to give it my all,” he said. “This opportunity presented itself and I’m all in. You can only do this one time. I have to capitalize on every opportunity.”

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MAYOR HARP, NHFD CHIEF ALSTON, RED CROSS TO PROMOTE ‘SOUND THE ALARM’ SMOKE DETECTOR GIVEAWAY AT THURSDAY AFTERNOON PRESS EVENT

New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp will be joined Thursday afternoon by Fire Chief John Alston and officials of the American Red Cross (ARC) at an event to promote a near-future smoke detector giveaway. City and ARC officials will ask everyone to help Sound the Alarm in New Haven and be part of a nationwide effort to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by home fires.

Tomorrow’s press conference is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. at fire department headquarters – 952 Grand Avenue – in New Haven. Members of the press corps are invited to attend and cover this important public safety event.

Fire department and ARC personnel will soon canvass New Haven neighborhoods, installing free smoke alarms, replacing batteries in existing alarms, and helping families create emergency escape plans. At tomorrow’s event, residents will be invited to make an appointment for a free home fire safety visit.

11 April, 2018 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION

At 12:21 PM, Officers and EMTs were called to a reported shooting on Chapel Street between Winthrop Avenue and Norton Street. The victim was shot once in the chest and rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital. He is Eric Lewis, 35, of New Haven. He remains in critical condition.

Detectives from the department’s Major Crimes Division as well as the Bureau of Identification are on scene investigating.

Police are asking for the public’s help. Anyone who witnessed this crime or who has information valuable to investigators, is urged to phone detectives at 203-946-6304 or through the department’s anonymous tip-line at 866-888-TIPS (8477) or 203-946-6296

CITY NOW OFFERS FREE, ‘DEMOCRACY PARKING’ TO SPUR PUBLIC ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION AT NIGHTTIME WORKSHOPS, HEARINGS, & MEETINGSb

New Haven – City officials, mindful of the imminent, busy schedule of budget workshops and public hearings, today issued a reminder of this year’s new, convenient feature: free, downtown, ‘democracy parking’ for residents and others who want or need to attend and participate in the city’s budget preparation process and other after-hours city business.

‘Democracy parking’ allows participants in city business to park in the surface lot at 32 Elm Street, between Orange and State streets, after 5:00 p.m., and then, after attending an official city function in City Hall or the Hall of Records, have their parking stub validated by one of the security personnel. A validated stub covers what would otherwise be the cost to park there.

In the coming weeks, the New Haven Board of Alders is scheduled to hold budget hearings and workshops – in City Hall beginning at 6:00 p.m. – on April 9 and 19, and on May 9, 14, and 29. 

“The only way the board can make informed decisions about city operations is if residents get involved and have their voices heard, however, the board makes these decisions downtown, where parking becomes an issue,” said Board of Alders President Pro Tempore Jeanette Morrison, whose initiative led to the city’s ‘democracy parking’ program, and who is also Acting Mayor this week. “The prospect of parking fines had become the primary obstacle cited by so many residents so my colleagues and I worked with the traffic authority to arrange for this free, after-5:00 p.m. parking option.”

Morrison was also instrumental in the creation of what she calls ‘family parking’ – again, after 5:00 p.m. – in Yale’s Lot #51 on Temple Street, for those using the main branch of the city’s public library.

“Providing options for residents to make parking easier has generated increased engagement in the government process and use of the public library – we encourage more residents to take full advantage of this innovative program,” said Department of Transportation, Traffic, and Parking Director Doug Hausladen.

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24 March, 2018 – RETURNING BURGLAR REPORTS BEING ROBBED – GETS ARRESTED

At 4:16 AM, Officers were dispatched to a burglary-in-progress call at 370 Dixwell Avenue. “He’s still in there”, said a neighbor, as they pulled up.

The witnesses reported a man wearing red sweatpants and a matching top, kick in the front door and go inside. He said the man had been outside yelling and swearing about money owed to him. The cops found no one inside. A fingerprint technician went to work and the home was secured.

About ten minutes after the officers left, someone called police reporting the red sweat-suited crook had returned to the scene of the crime. The cops returned too. There they found their suspect, David Isaiah Pouncey (12-21-1986), of Ingleside Drive in Hamden, CT. Pouncey told the officers he’d been robbed by someone inside the house. When they informed Pouncey there was nobody inside, he stared at them with no reply.

The witness identified Pouncey as the burglar. He was arrested and charged with second degree burglary and second degree criminal mischief.

25 March, 2018 – BURGLAR FOUND ASLEEP BY RESPONDING COPS

At 7:04 AM, Officers were dispatched to an Eastern Street home after the homeowner’s phone alerted her to a break-in. While en route, the officers were told a white man had entered the home through the front door. He was clad in a Pea Coat. The caller, who wasn’t home, was watching the burglar roam about on a live feed provided to her phone from her surveillance system.

When the officers arrived, they found the intruder. He was fast asleep on the living room sofa. Garrett Connors (12-27-1990), of Holbrook Place in Ansonia, CT, woke up and told the officers he and his two friends were let in by a woman he named but had no other information about. A search of the home, showed no others inside.

The video link was sent to the cops. It showed Connors enter the home alone. He was charged with third degree burglary and first degree criminal trespass.

25 March, 2018 – MOTEL RESIDENT CHARGED IN WEAPON COMPLAINT

At 7:45 PM, Officers pulled into the parking lot of The New Haven Inn, 100 Pond Lilly Avenue. Someone had phoned police to report someone there had pointed a rifle at her.

There were several people arguing in front of one of the motel rooms. None involved would present themselves as the caller. The officers started knocking on doors. Two were detained in the room the caller said the rifle was stashed. They turned out to have no involvement.

Finally, a man and a woman came forward. They identified the man they said pointed the weapon at them and the woman’s eight year old grand-daughter. The officers were told the incident revolved around old and new relationships and the turbulence that exists between the ex’s.

The accused, Edward Willie Cobb, (2-6-1981), of New Haven, told the officers he’d been falsely accused –that he never threatened anyone and didn’t have a gun. Officers then removed Cobb’s Ward’s Western Field, .410 guage repeater shotgun from his motel room.

Cobb is unqualified to own or possess any firearm. He was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a firearm, second degree threatening, first degree reckless endangerment, risk of injury to a child and second degree breach of peace.

25 March, 2018 – FELON SHOOTS SELF IN FOOT

At 2:13 AM, Officers responded to a reported shooting in a third floor apartment at 63 Ellsworth Avenue. There, they found the victim, Elijah McFarlin Jr (1-1-1964), who’d phoned 911 to report he’d struck a shotgun shell with a hammer and it fired into his left foot.

The officers sent McFarlin to the hospital to attend to the hole in his foot. They recovered his bloodied shoe in his bedroom. They found a sawed-off shotgun in another, and a spent shotgun shell in the trash.

When Detective Daniel Conklin met McFarlin at the hospital, he told him he’d been paranoid after smoking Crack cocaine, retrieved the weapon, and that while walking with it, shot himself.

McFarlin, a convicted felon was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm and possession of a sawed-off shotgun.

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MAYORS HARP, GANIM SCRUTINIZE STATE’S HALF-BILLION DOLLAR HARTFORD BAILOUT

New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim today released the following joint statement in response to the state’s agreement to pay off some $550 million of Hartford’s accumulated debt:

“While we evaluate the state’s new, half-billion-dollar bailout of Hartford, and recognize it as an acknowledgement of the responsibility the state has to assist its structurally, and perpetually distressed cities, we question whether it represents an equitable practice.

Connecticut absolutely must have a consistent, comprehensive urban policy to lift all cities constrained by current tax laws, now compounded by tens of millions of dollars in state budget cuts.

It seems the state continues to shortchange New Haven and Bridgeport – its two largest cities, with comparatively stable finances, while rewarding the past practices of other cities that put them on the edge of financial collapse.

Connecticut requires comparable support for its two most populous urban centers and an economic development strategy for the Bridgeport/New Haven region. We’ll meet next week and present a consistent municipal aid program for all cities in the state.”

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CITY READY TO MOBILIZE 60 TRUCKS, OTHER EQUIPMENT

New Haven – City officials announced this afternoon that an early spring Nor’easter is bearing down on the region with up to 15 inches of accumulating snow forecast. Many city streets – particularly at intersections and on hills – have been pretreated with snow-melting brine as a precaution.

Officials plan to implement a citywide parking ban as of 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, to be in effect until 6:00 a.m. Thursday. Residents may park their cars in either the Temple Street or Granite Square parking facilities for a reduced, $3/day fee. Residents are encouraged to call 203-946-8221 or the city’s Snow Line at 203-946-SNOW with any storm-related parking questions.

In other storm-related news:

• The city will respond to the storm forecast for tomorrow with 60 trucks: 36 operated by staff of the Department of Public Works, clearing some 230 miles of city streets, eight by private contractors, and 16 by employees of the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees to address downed trees and limbs and clear bus stops, curb cuts, and pathways across city parks.

• Refuse collection for Wednesday will begin early – at midnight tonight.

• All three of the city’s senior centers will be closed Wednesday.

• New Haven Fire Department officials are asking residents to assist with clearing snow from around the fire hydrant closest to their house, should snow accumulations warrant such clearing.

REMINDER 

2 Emergency Parking Bans go into effect tomorrow Wednesday at 6:00 PM. The First is a Downtown parking that begins tomorrow Wednesday at 6:00 PM and ends Thursday evening at 6:00 PM. Temple St. and Granite Sq. garages are both open for $3.00 during the storm. The second is a citywide residential parking ban allowing parking on the even side only in residential areas. That ban begins Wednesday at 6:00 PM until further notice. In both Parking Bans there is no parking on any posted snow emergency route or 25 feet from any intersection, bus stop, or fire hydrant. Ticketing and/or Towing will be enforced. For updated information please visit the City website at  Http://www.newhavenct.gov or check the recorded snowline at 203-946-7669.

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The Greater New Haven Clergy Association

Presents
“A HOLY WEEK CELEBRATION!!”

When: March 26th through the 30th, 2018!

Monday night Overseer Danny Bland!
Tuesday night Pastor India Mills!
Wednesday night Reverend Kevin Coakley!
Thursday night Reverend Moses Harvill!

Where: Varick AME Zion Church
244-246 Dixwell Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Services will be held nightly at 7:00 PM
The “Seven Last Words”
will be held at 10:00 AM on
Good Friday!

We’ll see you there!!



Elder Roger Wilkins, President
Reverend Kelcy G.L Steele, Vice President

Dr. Carol Birks

NEW NHPS SUPERINTENDENT TO START MONDAY;  PRESS INVITED TO JOIN A FIRST-DAY TOUR OF WILBUR CROSS HIGH SCHOOL BEGINNING AT 10:15

New Haven – Dr. Carol Birks, incoming superintendent of New Haven Public Schools, will assume her new responsibilities Monday morning; a full day of staff meetings, conversations with school administrators, and school tours is planned.

Dr. Birks is scheduled to tour Wilbur Cross High School – 181 Mitchell Drive

All meetings with an (*) indicate a public meeting

Monday, March 12th, 2018

*Commission on Disabilities, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 2 5:15 p.m.

*Elm City Cycling, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 3, 6:00 p.m.

*New Haven Bicycle Club, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 1, 7:00 p.m.

*Board of Alders, Finance Committee, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium

Aldermanic Chamber 6:00 p.m., (203) 946-6045

Tuesday, March 13th, 2018

New Haven Development Commission, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium,

Meeting Room 3, 8:00 a.m., (203) 946-5761

*Board of Alders, Legislation Committee, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium

Aldermanic Chamber, 6:00 p.m., (203) 946-7288

*Bereavement Care Network, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 1

5:30 p.m., (203) 824-1581

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

*Board of Alders, Black & Hispanic Caucus, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium

Meeting Room 3, 6:00 p.m. (203) 946-8371

*CEO, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor, CSA’s Conference Room – 288 Annex, 6:00 p.m.

(203) 946-7686

*GNH Toastmasters, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 1, 6:30 p.m.

(203) 848-7039

NH Historic District Commission, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 2

6:30 p.m., (203) 946-8237

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

National Veterans Council, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Rooms 1 & 2

6:00 p.m.

Friday, March 16th, 2018

Solar Youth Inc., New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 1, 3:00 p.m.

(860) 478-7800

Monday, March 19th, 2018

*Board of Alders-Democratic Caucus, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 3. 5:45 p.m.; Public Information Caucus, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Meeting Room 1, 6:30 p.m.; Full Board Meeting, New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, 2nd Floor Atrium, Aldermanic Chamber,

7:00 p.m., (203) 946-6483