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
On anniversary of Witherspoon and Washington shooting, Abolition Alliance at Yale discusses YPD’s future

Two years after Yale and Hamden police shot at Paul Witherspoon and Stephanie Washington and following the recent police killings of Daunte Wright and Adam […]

April 20, 2021

A screenshot of the Zoom town hall appears on a computer screen
TALAT AMAN & RAZEL SUANSING
Protesters call for police abolition following Toledo, Wright killings

In April 2019, a Hamden police officer and Yale police officer shot at two Black residents, Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon — sparking citywide protests over […]

April 18, 2021

Protesters march east on Wall St. in between Silliman and Slifka.
VANIKA MAHESH, ÁNGELA PÉREZ & RAZEL SUANSING
Man steals tip jar from Koffee?, sparks conversation about policing at the shop

On Tuesday afternoon, a shoplifting incident occurred at the local New Haven café Koffee? when an individual stole a tip jar and threatened to kill […]

April 16, 2021

The Koffee? sign on their building
RAZEL SUANSING
NHPD, City Hall launch campaign against ATV, dirt-bike riders

In preparation for a summer of all-terrain vehicle, or ATV, and dirt bike riders driving on city streets, the New Haven Police Department and City […]

April 16, 2021

The front of City Hall from the Green.
TALAT AMAN & RAZEL SUANSING
Abolition Alliance at Yale releases report on Yale Police Department activity

Last week, a coalition of student groups released a report analyzing the activities of the Yale Police Department and reiterated their calls for the abolition […]

April 15, 2021

Police officers stand across from protestors.
RAZEL SUANSING
Judiciary Committee votes for sweeping solitary confinement reform

After successfully pushing to close the state’s only maximum-security prison this year, Connecticut activists are advocating for more reforms in the state’s solitary confinement practices. […]

April 15, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING
Amid rise in violent crime, NHPD to hold gun buyback program on Saturday

Amid a rise in violent crime, the New Haven Police Department will once again hold its gun buyback program that was put on pause last […]

April 14, 2021

Swords to Plowshares Secretary Pina Violano shows her necklace made from pieces of destroyed guns
CHRISTIAN ROBLES & RAZEL SUANSING
BOE passes recommendation to keep school resource officers, invest in psychologists, social workers

After nearly a year-long debate over the fate of school resource officers, or SROs, in New Haven Public Schools, the Board of Education has accepted […]

April 14, 2021

RAZEL SUANSING & OWEN TUCKER-SMITH
‘A beautiful day in Ward 1’: Nation’s first FEMA mobile vaccination unit comes to the Elm City

This Thursday and Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s first mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit is visiting the Elm City. The unit will vaccinate over 800 […]

April 9, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, NATALIE KAINZ, MARC BERTONI, SEVI BURGET-FOSTER & RAZEL SUANSING
FEMA vaccination clinic visits New Haven

On April 8 and 9, the Federal Emergency Management Agency set up a mobile vaccination clinic on the New Haven Green. More than 800 New […]

April 9, 2021

THE YALE DAILY NEWS, NATALIE KAINZ, RAZEL SUANSING & MAYA WELDON-LAGRIMAS
Yale students rush to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments

As of April 1, everyone over the age of 16 is eligible to receive a vaccine in Connecticut. Students and members of the New Haven […]

April 2, 2021