Razel Suansing
Staff Reporter
razelsuansing | razel.suansing@yale.edu
Razel Suansing is a staff reporter and producer for the City, YTV, and Magazine desks. She covers cops and courts, specifically state criminal justice reform efforts, the New Haven Police Department, and the Yale Police Department. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she is a first-year in Davenport College, majoring in Global Affairs.
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RAZEL SUANSING & BRIAN ZHANG
New Haven is facing its highest rate of gun violence in years. Here’s what the city is doing about it.

Gun violence in New Haven has surged this year.   Since the start of the year, New Haven has seen 22 homicides and 264 confirmed shots […]

October 6, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING & KYLIE VOLAVONGSA
University’s annual campus security and fire safety report shows crime fell during unprecedented pandemic year

Yale’s annual campus security and fire safety report, released Thursday, revealed that reported instances of on-campus crime and sexual assault fell between 2019 and 2020. […]

October 4, 2021

Hand holding phone showing safety report
RAZEL SUANSING & MEGAN VAZ
Local motorcycle stunt event results in two arrests

East Coastin’ 2021, a major motorcycling event, came last Saturday to the streets of New Haven, despite calls from city officials to cancel the stunts. […]

September 28, 2021

Photo of the exterior of the NHPD.
RAZEL SUANSING
NHPD honors Joshua Castellano, who died in car accident

Knowing when to hire a car accident lawyer can be crucial if you or a loved one has been involved in a motor vehicle accident. […]

September 27, 2021

Members of the New Haven Police Department honor Joshua Castellano, who died in a car crash.
RAZEL SUANSING, JASMINE SU & EVAN GORELICK
Public Safety committee approves purchase of technology for police accountability

NHPD’s proposal for authorization to buy dashboard and body cameras pushes forward in the Board of Alders.

September 23, 2021

Up close shot of the side of a New Haven police car.
RAZEL SUANSING
DOJ drops lawsuit against Yale; university faces new legal challenges

Following a presidential transition, the Biden administration dropped the Department of Justice lawsuit in February. The lawsuit, originally filed last October by then-President Donald Trump, […]

May 31, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
Calls to defund, dismantle the Yale Police Department continue

After a summer of reckoning for police departments around the country following the police murder of George Floyd, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale and […]

May 28, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
Controversy continues over Black Yale graduate student reported for napping

Early in the morning of May 8, 2018, Lolade Siyonbola GRD ’19 was taking a nap in a twelfth floor Hall of Graduate Studies common […]

May 23, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
Shooting of Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon sparks further scrutiny of New Haven, Yale, Hamden police departments

In the early hours of the morning April 16, 2019, Hamden police officer Devon Eaton and Yale Police officer Terrance Pollock fired 16 shots at […]

May 23, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
Calls to defund, dismantle the YPD continue

After a summer of reckoning for police departments around the country following the police murder of George Floyd, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale and […]

May 23, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
ANALYSIS: New Haven is experiencing a rise in homicides, violent crime; Officials, residents split on solutions

Homicides and violent crime in New Haven are rising for the first time in years. Criminal justice professors, law enforcement and community activists debate the most effective solution.

May 7, 2021