Tag Archives: New Haven Police Department

Voter Participation

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Aristotle wrote that man is by nature a political animal, but getting involved in local politics may not come so naturally. …

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Making Peace

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Gary Kyshon Miller Sr., age 20. Walter Jaynes Sr., age 19. These and more than 600 other names are etched into bricks on a broad, curving walkway that leads to New Haven’s new Botanical Garden of Healing…

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Government Agency

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In 1961, Robert A. Dahl, then the chair of political science at Yale, published what would become a seminal book on “the political structure of a typical American city”—New Haven. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City traces …

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Enforcement

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It’s sometime after midnight in late December, 2015. I’m standing on a public sidewalk in the commercial part of the Annex, photographing some…

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Intro to Local Politics

New Haven's aldermanic chambers

Aristotle said that man is by nature a political animal, but getting involved in local politics may not come so naturally. It takes work to find out what’s happening in New Haven and where you fit in. But making your …

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Flag-Waving

The Emerald Society at the 2017 Greater New Haven St. Patrick's Day Parade

A photo essay. To view all 28 shots, check out the email version.

Thanks to a wind-chill factor in the teens, the crowd at Sunday’s Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade was smaller than usual. …

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New Haven’s Finest

John Driscoll circa 1892

“The oldest active sergeant… Unquestionable integrity, loyalty to his duty… Earned the utmost respect of every member of the department… Law-abiding citizens respect and honor this man, lawbreakers fear him… With Rooseveltian persistency…

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