Yale Police Union Distributes Campus Safety Flyers Featuring Grim Reaper to New Students Causing Outrage
“These pamphlets included disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric about the safety of Yale’s campus and its home city of New Haven, aimed at creating fear among new students and their families.”
The Yale Police Union distributed flyers to incoming students, warning them of crime on and around campus which features a figure that looks like the Grim Reaper.
Leaders at Yale and the city of New Haven are not happy about it.
FOX News reports:
Yale police union hands arriving students Grim Reaper flyers about crime near campus: ‘Good luck’
The Yale Police Union in New Haven shared a bold public safety flyer, complete with an image of the Grim Reaper, with students arriving at the Ivy League university’s campus this week.
Yale and New Haven city officials criticized the “misleading” pamphlets, which say crime in the southern Connecticut city is “getting worse.”
“This weekend, the Yale Police Union, which is currently in contract negotiations with the university, handed out misleading pamphlets to Yale students as they moved into their residential colleges,” Yale said in a Monday statement. “These pamphlets included disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric about the safety of Yale’s campus and its home city of New Haven, aimed at creating fear among new students and their families.”
The flyer notes that “murders have doubled, burglaries are up 33% and motor vehicle thefts are up 56%” — statistics that come from the New Haven Police Department.
“Nevertheless, some Yalies do manage to survive New Haven and even retain their personal property,” the pamphlet states, adding, “Good luck,” along with a list of safety tips, such as “[s]tay off the streets after 8 p.m.,” ‘[d]o not walk alone” “[a]void public transportation” and “[r]emain on campus.”
The New Haven Register has reactions:
New Haven, Yale officials, police decry flyers questioning students’ safety
The flyers, which officials said were created and distributed by the Yale Police Benevolent Association, “were distributed during Yale University’s annual move-in day this past weekend and aimed to create fear and stoke public safety concerns among new students and their families,” an advisory notice said.
The officials, including Mayor Justin Elicker, city Police Chief Karl Jacobson, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell and members of the Board of Alders, joined other community members to address their concerns Tuesday on the steps of Yale’s Woolsey Hall at 500 College St…
Elicker called the flyer “totally offensive” and said it was not an accurate reflection of the city and the wrong way to welcome people to New Haven.
“When you welcome someone to your community, you embrace them and support them,” said Elicker, pointing out that the flyers were distributed at what should have been one of the happiest, most celebratory days of new students’ lives. “You don’t invite fear.
The offended parties are trying very hard to downplay the idea of local crime while blaming this on the Yale Police Union, which they claim is unhappy with pay negotiations.
If you watch this video report to the end, you’ll notice that they downplay the idea of local crime, but admit at the very end that homicides in the area have doubled since last year.
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I wonder why one can buy a gorgeous, gilded age mansion in New Haven for the same price as a tacky raised ranch 10 miles out of town.
“which features a figure that looks like the Grim Reaper”
Image the vapors all these offended parties would be having if the flyer had even been more truthful with pictures showing the faces & skin colors of those responsible for the vast, vast majority of New Haven’s crime.
There you go again…! Noticing Things.
The faux outrage is hilarious!
Let’s all recall that Yale’s most famous secret student society is called… Skull and Bones.
Quick! Somebody call a waaaahmbulance!
Goth students hardest hit.
Being reminded of the severity of rising crime can be uncomfortable, but not as uncomfortable as that blow you took to the back of your head so a junkie could take your wallet
So basically the Yale Police Union has admitted when distributing this leaflet is that they’ve failed to keep crime under control on the Yale Campus and that there’s a similar failure to do so by New Haven law enforcement?
If that’s the case then I’d stop contract negotiations, fire the whole lot of them, get rid of the Union, and hire some law enforcement that can actually do the darn job. If they can’t do an effective job as law enforcement then they shouldn’t have jobs as law enforcement officers and should seek other alternative employment.
Interesting take on the situation. The police, who are incredibly constrained in their ability to “keep crime under control on the Yale Campus ” by the liberal local politicians are the problem? If they actually attempt to “keep crime under control on the Yale Campus ” they have been and will be banded racist . The second paragraph was even more how shall I say independent of reality, Fire the cops, who are constrained from actually doing their job, try to hire cops (nearly impossible these days in liberal territories) to do a job that they are prevented from doing. The problem for most liberal enclaves is their cops already are seeking “alternative employment.”
The problem is rarely with the police. The problem is usually with the prosecutor’s office, judges, parole boards, legislators, along with a local ‘hood culture.
If they have a union contract, there are provisions for terminating officers–you don’t just go in, stop contract negotiations and fire everyone–that invites an unfair labor practice charge. And I’m sure the issue is not that the police can’t do their jobs–it’s because the nutjobs running the city won’t let them do their jobs. You can’t penalize the cops for that.
“These pamphlets included disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric about the safety of Yale’s campus and its home city of New Haven…”
If it is true, and they admit it is, how is it inflammatory?
And if it is true, as I see it is, how is it “misleading”?
Im surprised they didn’t show the grim reaper wearing a branch covidian mask!
This one would be more accurate (and truthful),
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41wh4uatMxL.jpg
New Haven. Where the truth goes to die. The defund the po po people really hate it when you point out that their efforts have lead to a 30-40% increase in the murders of black people BY other black people. I guess their dreams of everyone being united in peace and harmony by unicorns didn’t work out as planned.
Those critical of this pamphlet should prepare for this future receipt to be called in b/c it will be.
Misleading? What do the stats say? Because if the stats say crime is getting worse the only legitimate complaint would seem to be that the illustration was poorly chosen.
But if the target audience was college freshmen and the idea is to get their attention an eye-catching illustration is good marketing.
Sounds like better communication/coordination might have prevented this kerfluffle.
Also on those flyers should be a line about just how hopelessly in debt you probably will be after 4 years of ‘education’.
Uncle Joe will take care of that. No problem.
Having “to support” new members in the community is a major part of the problem.
They left off the scythe. It’s a metaphor of harvest.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhhardin/2373431345
Time to examine why these higher indoctrination facilities have huge endowments but can’t properly patrol the campus.
I could have saved them some money on graphic design and just posted a 3 word sign.
Gun Free Zone.
Nary a word of who is committing these crimes. We all know, white supremacists!
I’m offended is code for shield me from criticism.
New Haven was a sh*thole some 25 years ago when I was last there. Scary neighborhoods and war zones abounded.
The term of art is “ghetto” and Elvis Presley weeps.
BOTTOM LINE — It is better that a few students get robbed and assaulted than that Yake look bad.
These flearful kids probably couldnt telll you the Last Four Things
I didn’t bother to find the stats, but the crime increase numbers would be the same if:
Murders have doubled – going from one murder last year to two this year
Burglaries are up 33% – going from three burglaries last year to four this year
Motor vehicle thefts up 56% – going from 16 last year to 25 this year.
That is, the released flyer IS misleading without the context of severity. New Haven’s population is 137,000. If the numbers I’ve presented are the actual incidence, then there is not really much of a crime wave happening and the police a fomenting a panic-mongering.
Someone should create a pamphlet warning of the damage to the students’ souls from four years of indoctrination.