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I wonder how the Mayor and Police can justify constant gunfire coming from the Police Academy. I understand and am all for them refining thier skills, however they are between 2 schools, 1 being an elementry school and near close proximity to West Hazel, West Division, and Harding St. What is this saying to our kids, and the violence in this neighborhood?
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. (Visitante)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilizador Registado)
Related petition with 50+ signatures of people who want it fixed:
"5. The constant outdoor gunfire at the police training range is not acceptable. People living in Newhallville and Beaver Hills hear constant gunfire from this range and it sends the wrong message."
http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/90790
Craig (Visitante)
There is so much noise pollution in New Haven. Why aren't you complaining about the noisy motorcycles and illegal ATV's, incessant beeping and other everyday urban noise disruptions that are constant? The shooting range noise is at least intermittent.
Once the firing range is relocated, we will see how soundproof it really is. FWIW, I hear the shooting at the range, but is is far less offensive and pluuting than the noises I mentioned above.
Walter Miller (Visitante)
BB (Utilizador Registado)
beaverhills (Visitante)
GreenSoundsGood (Utilizador Registado)
I find the noise alone disturbing. It reverberates through a community. I see that you mention the off-road vehicles and the noise they produce. Well, have you ever stood by a young child who tugs on his mother and says, "Mommy I want a dirt-bike!" The same psychological attraction occurs every time these kids hear the gun shots going off at the NHPD range. It is not that guns are bad. It is that there is an opportunity to let a different noise ring in a neighborhood.
This issue is in dire need of attention.
Heather (Utilizador Registado)
"Planning is underway to relocate the police academy and the police firing range from its current location to the site of the former Army National Guard facility on Goffe Street. The range will then be indoors and sound-dampened. "
- - After more than a year, the training facility is still in the same place. Any reason? Who is a point of contact for this 'planning'?
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilizador Registado)
My sense is that they've said "planning is underway" for many years now. It's a good way for government officials to deflect the community outrage about the ongoing use of this facility and its destruction of the surrounding community fabric.
The reality seems to be that it may be decades before the facility actually moves somewhere else.
Rob Smuts (Utilizador Registado)
The Whalley-Edgewood-Beaver Hill (WEB) Management Team has a shooting range committee, and they coordinate with the Newhallville Management Team. I meet with WEB regularly to provide updates.
There are two parts to solving this issue. One is to find a location to build a new indoor range, and the second is to identify funds to build one. On the first part, the City has been pursuing the former Wintergreen Avenue US Army Reserve Center through the federal Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) process. The BRAC process takes a long time, but we reached a milestone last week when the Dept of Justice approved the transfer for law enforcement use (relocating the Training Academy) at no cost, after a several-month review. The Board of Aldermen has already approved the transfer and now the Dept of Defense will then complete the paperwork, and the transfer is likely to occur sometime this winter. There is ample space to construct an indoor range at the new site.
The second part is securing funding for an indoor range. The City believes that there might be interest by other agencies in sharing costs and use (an indoor range would not inconvenience the neighborhood because it would be sound-proof). To that end, Senator Lieberman has toured the current range to learn about the problems it creates for the neighborhood and the training advantages to NHPD and federal agencies of an indoor range. Senator Blumenthal has expressed an interest in a similar tour, though it is not yet scheduled.
Read more at: www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/beaver_hill_to_city_thanks_for_the/
My friend Mark's cynicism aside, there has been a considerable amount of progress on this issue. It is a complicated problem to solve, however, and there are still several hurdles to go. I would be happy to meet with any community group that is interested and discuss further.
- Rob Smuts, City of New Haven Chief Administrative Officer
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Utilizador Registado)
ray (Utilizador Registado)
Fechado City of New Haven (Utilizador Registado)
Reopened Ray (Visitante)
According to Rob Smuts, in August of 2012, in this very thread:
"There are two parts to solving this issue. One is to find a location to build a new indoor range, and the second is to identify funds to build one. On the first part, the City has been pursuing the former Wintergreen Avenue US Army Reserve Center through the federal Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) process. The BRAC process takes a long time, but we reached a milestone last week when the Dept of Justice approved the transfer for law enforcement use (relocating the Training Academy) at no cost, after a several-month review.
The Board of Aldermen has already approved the transfer and now the Dept of Defense will then complete the paperwork, and the transfer is likely to occur sometime this winter. There is ample space to construct an indoor range at the new site.
The second part is securing funding for an indoor range. The City believes that there might be interest by other agencies in sharing costs and use (an indoor range would not inconvenience the neighborhood because it would be sound-proof). To that end, Senator Lieberman has toured the current range to learn about the problems it creates for the neighborhood and the training advantages to NHPD and federal agencies of an indoor range. Senator Blumenthal has expressed an interest in a similar tour, though it is not yet scheduled."
I wonder if the students at Southern Connecticut State University are here in constant gunfire today.
This issue, and all related issues should remain open, and citizens
Should be outraged that kindergarteners have to live
With this gunfire as the background music for their day.
Not to mention all the combat veterans that take classes at SCSU.
Yale Newhallville Family (Visitante)
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