Eliza Fawcett
Staff Reporter
eliza.fawcett@yale.edu
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ELIZA FAWCETT
Police, community aim to strengthen ties

As recently released data indicates mixed public approval of the New Haven Police Department, NHPD officials and leaders of Mayor Toni Harp’s Community and Police […]

October 18, 2016

ashnagupta
ELIZA FAWCETT
NHPD recruits most diverse class in five years

This fall, the New Haven Police Department recruited its most diverse class in the last five years, as more than half of its new trainees are black or Hispanic.

October 14, 2016

robbieshort
ELIZA FAWCETT
City seeks police chief with New Haven ties

New Haven lawmakers are looking inward to find the city’s next police chief, more than one month after former New Haven Police Department Chief Dean […]

October 7, 2016

ELIZA FAWCETT
NHPD joins residents on the court

As the sun set over the Elm City on Wednesday, about 75 New Haven residents and members of the New Haven Police Department came together […]

October 6, 2016

ELIZA FAWCETT & SARA TABIN
Clown incidents hit NHPS

The New Haven Police Department is investigating after an anonymous Instagram account posted four ominous photos of clowns with threatening captions targeted at New Haven Public Schools students on Saturday.

October 5, 2016

nganvu
ELIZA FAWCETT
Esserman accepts nearly $100k to resign

Mayor Toni Harp agreed to pay embattled former New Haven Chief of Police Dean Esserman nearly $100,000 and a year of health care costs in exchange for his resignation, according to a document released by City Hall on Friday.

October 4, 2016

marekramilo
ELIZA FAWCETT
NHPD issues warning on fake guns

On Friday afternoon, the New Haven Police Department issued a warning to Elm City residents about the increasing prevalence of paintball guns, facsimile firearms and BB guns in the city.

October 3, 2016

ELIZA FAWCETT
Mayor names new Elm City fire chief

Mayor Toni Harp announced Thursday afternoon her choice for New Haven’s next fire chief: John Alston, a battalion chief from Jersey City, New Jersey.

September 30, 2016

ELIZA FAWCETT
Squash Haven maintains support through college years

In 2007, when Dante Haughton was a fifth-grader at Edgewood Magnet School, he heard about Squash Haven, a new program offering squash training and academic […]

September 8, 2016

SARA TABIN & ELIZA FAWCETT
YouTube star explores race in films

On Wednesday night, an audience of approximately 60 Yale students, faculty members and New Haven residents watched a video of all the lines spoken by people of color throughout the entire Harry Potter series. Although the movies span nearly 20 hours, the clip took less than five minutes.

February 25, 2016

saratabin
ELIZA FAWCETT
NAACP president visits campus to honor MLK

Standing at the same pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in 1962, Rev. Cornell William Brooks LAW ’90, the president and CEO of the […]

January 21, 2016

robbieshort