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. Police have identified the Wednesday night homicide victim in Black Rock as 36-year-old Ernesto Reyes-Santos of Brooklyn, New York. According to police a passerby found the victim lying in the street on Davis Avenue suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to Saint Vincent’s Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives Wednesday canvassed the area looking for witnesses. There were no reports of gunfire in the area, raising the possibility that the suspect was shot at another location, according to police.
Pat Dower, who lives nearby the crime scene, shares his observations with OIB
I live 100 yards from that scene. Because the BPD made such short work of cleaning up the murder scene on Davis, there is still blood in the street! And leaving I didn’t even know there was a murder until this morning. I arrived home at 12:30am from dinner to find suspicious people across the street from my house. I called and reported the suspicious people to the police and they never responded … two hours after a murder, they didn’t respond to a suspicious person call 100 yards from the scene of a murder. Appalling.
Sorry Pat Dower, the police didn’t clean the blood to your standard. I’ll tell you how this works. The Police only takes anything that may be evidence. More likely than not the blood was from the victim and not the perpetrator of the crime. In cases such as this, the blood is usually cleaned up by a good proactive neighbor who makes things happen as opposed to waiting for someone else to do it. Try hydrogen peroxide and a few gallons of water. You can wait for the rain if you wish. A minority candidate campaigning in Black Rock fits the standard of a suspicious person. Why is that black guy going house to house and ringing the bell? Dial tone. 911, how can I help you?
Joel-another senseless and crass comment from you. Again, that appears to be all you are capable of.
And somehow you were able to conclude with a few words about yourself, add narcissistic to the list.
Pat–I agree. I’ve called him out on that before, to no avail of course. Somehow Joel always manages to divert the subject to being all about him.
If the police were called as a result of your campaigning, Gonzalez, be thankful they don’t respond to suspicious persons calls, at a crime scene or otherwise. We are not accustomed to murder in the streets. When people who are not desensitized to the point of indifference toward murder have it happen in their neighborhood, they become nervous. Some of those nervous people are legally licensed to carry weapons. I don’t think I’m alone on this when I say I do not want a few uneasy people in my neighborhood carrying weapons. I want those neighbors to feel like the city and the good men and women of the BPD care about their uneasiness and could display that care by hosing the dried blood off the street, or being johnny-on-the-spot when a resident calls for assistance. It would help the local residents calm down after such a tragedy. The washing away of blood would help not to remind those who pass by there was a murder there less than a day earlier. It’s not an abnormal expectation to assume the police will respond when called, or for a murder scene to be cleaned after an investigation if it contributes to the residents’ confidence in their safety. My condolences to the deceased and his family.
The Bridgeport police respond to very few calls that involve suspicious persons, vandalism, break-ins to your car and the list goes on. I will tell you why this is. The police department is poorly managed even though they have a ton of ranking officers. There are 21 street or patrol cops on duty per shift, that’s right, 21 cops. Let’s do the math, 21 cops x 5 shifts means there are 105 patrol cops, there are 105 supervisors from Sgt to Chief. That’s a total of 210 officers. There are approx 420 cops sworn in so the question is where are the other 210 cops?
The cops if they weren’t so lazy could have called either the FD to wash the blood away or public works could clean it up. Joel, it’s not my job to clean blood off the street, it’s a common courtesy the city should do.
Andrew C Fardy, you have brought this information about the Bridgeport Police Dept. to OIB readers for years, it is very valuable but the voters are not aware of it. The staffing of the PD should be one of the top issues in every election but it’s not. The same for budget meetings this issues should be near the top, the safety of all citizens. Priority, priority, priority, is what the police look at before one of those 21 police cars are sent out. The public would be upset if they knew the priority on when a police car can respond to a call.
You are right, Ron. I keep bringing it up and will do so until the police department puts the proper number of people in the street. Gaudett will not answer where the other 210 cops are being used. We know there are 105 street cops and 105 supervisors. We know the TO is 420 give or take. I know we have about 25-30 detectives so now we are only missing 180. And so it goes.