The city’s latest homicide victim was shot Saturday night on Wells Street in the North End, according to city spokesman Av Harris. Doing It Local reports the man was shot in the upper body. More details here
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Man Shot Dead In North End
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There has been a lot of drug/gang activity in the lower North End for about 15 years. This was the second drug/gang killing in two weeks in that part of the North End. The last time there was a rash of killings in that part of the city was about six years ago, albeit a bit closer to Saint V’s. (There were over 20 gang-related murders in the city that year. Most of them occurred in the late summer/early fall as the public schools were getting back in the swing. Any connection between all the gang contact in the schools and the incidence of gang violence? That’s a tricky question; better get a consult from the FBI and ATF on that one.)
Then there is the ongoing problem of the drug/gang activity/gang intimidation in the Blackham School rec area and the surrounding neighborhood. (There have been a series of neighborhood meetings in recent months concerning that problem, but the problem remains unabated.)
Today, I witnessed an illegal dirt bike/atv tear-around down Trumbull Avenue, Reservoir Avenue, Old Town Road and Chopsey Hill Road. Did all the new security cameras in Trumbull Gardens and the area pick up where the vehicles originated from?! With all that surveillance, there should be lots of usable info. No? (I hope the cameras are a reality and not just a PR claim. Cameras for that area have been an ongoing request for a couple of decades.) There were probably 50-60 vehicles involved at about 4:45 on a Sunday afternoon. Peaceful. Lovely. Civil. Better Every Day!
I saw the same group today too, they were coming from lower Seaview Avenue. They continued on Stratford Avenue onto Fairfield Avenue. That was about five to four.
There isn’t much you can do to safely stop these idiots. Even trying would put the rest of the motoring public in danger. These kids are just another quality of life issue that has and will continue to plague the city. The city cannot handle another lawsuit over a dirt bike. Remember the Robby Cohen crash downtown a few years ago? Some say the cops were chasing him, some say they were not. Who knows who is right but the fact remains Mr. Cohen is dead.
The city should not expose itself to a needless lawsuit over a dirt bike.
Those cameras are just smoke and mirrors. They offer little detail on who is riding these bikes and ATV’s. They haven’t done much to deter the troubles on Trumbull Avenue. The shootings still continue, so does the loitering. What Bridgeport needs are cops whose sole job is to handle these issues. They should be given all the resources to attack the daily quality of life issues.
Currently they are too busy with accidents, domestics, alarms and the like. So that loud SHU party you hear going on for hours, it will be hours before you see a cop to shut it down. Name any issue, the cops will give one excuse after another why something can’t be done.
It’s up to the city how it wants to deal with these issue but here lies another twist to the plot. A lot of cops don’t live in the city so they do not have to deal with this and many other issues. Perhaps if they did they would know what it’s like and would work a little harder to fix it.
Everybody knows what needs to be done, the question is when is it going to be, if ever.
The school violence seems to start when school is back in session and continues until the start of summer break. What schools should do in the beginning of the year is to take a poll.
Ask the students who plan on dropping out to leave right now; don’t wait, just go. These future dropouts will be a constant distraction to the students who want to learn. Then the school makes sure the remaining students graduate and are prepared for college and beyond.