Reeti Malhotra
Staff Reporter
reeti.malhotra@yale.edu
Reeti Malhotra is a sophomore in Silliman College. She covers cops and courts for the News and also writes for WKND. She previously covered men's crew. Beyond the newsroom, she is a Political Science and English major, Spring Fling committee member, Directed Studies Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, and an actress for Yale's undergraduate theatre scene. She is originally from Singapore.
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ADELE HAEG & REETI MALHOTRA
Anthony Campbell departing Yale to lead Harvard police department

On Thursday, a Yale official announced that Anthony Campbell ’95 DIV ’09, who has overseen the Yale Police Department since 2022, will be leaving his post in January. Harvard announced that Campbell would take over its department.

November 13, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Christakises’ defenders see freer discourse since Halloween dispute

In 2015, an email sent to the Silliman College community by the college’s Associate Master Erika Christakis sparked discourse on Yale’s climate of freedom of expression.

November 13, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA & SABRINA THALER
City, state step in to aid food stamp recipients amid federal shutdown

Connecticut created an emergency fund partly to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments, and New Haven organized pop-up food pantries, as the Trump administration has tried to halt SNAP aid during the shutdown.

November 11, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Look At Me, Look At Me

In the 2017 documentary, “I am Heath Ledger,” Ledger’s family and friends filled a significant amount of the biographical picture with footage that the late actor had filmed of himself on various cameras.

November 7, 2025

Sophie Peetz
REETI MALHOTRA
City police to increase downtown presence after Halloween homicide

Alexa Acevedo, an 18-year-old, was shot and killed downtown over Halloween weekend. Officials announced Thursday afternoon that city police would amp up their downtown presence to combat recent gun violence.

November 7, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Elicker, DeLauro denounce Trump’s partial funding of food stamps

At a press conference in New Haven on Monday, Mayor Justin Elicker, Rep. Rosa DeLauro and local leaders criticized the White House for not fully funding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits during the government shutdown.

November 4, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Three struck, one dead in Halloween night shooting downtown

City police officers responded to reports of a shooting at Church and Center Streets early Saturday morning. An 18-year-old woman died, police said.

November 3, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Haunting Harkness

Connecticut ghost-hunters and bloggers alike would like you to believe that Yale — and the old New Haven grounds upon which it was founded over […]

October 31, 2025

Nellie Kenney
REETI MALHOTRA
New Haven joins lawsuit against Trump over food stamps suspension

Mayor Justin Elicker announced that New Haven — with 19 other parties — is suing the U.S. government for its refusal to maintain funding for SNAP amid the shutdown.

October 31, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Yale police union adopts new contract two years after last one expired

The contract ratified last week by members of the Yale Police Benevolent Association marked a turnaround from an apparent decline in negotiations over the summer, when the union voted unanimously to authorize a strike.

October 22, 2025

REETI MALHOTRA
Two Lynwood break-in attempts reported Monday

Two individuals at two homes on Lynwood Place reported attempted break-ins by an unidentified man just after midnight Monday morning.

October 21, 2025