When companies illegally pick up trash, contact your alderman with the plate number and time and ask them to contact the police and DEP. Only if enough people complain to their aldermen/police will they enforce it.

Yup, the company picking up at 527 Chapel is at it again too after stopping this practice a few years ago - time to start citing them, since, apparently, that is all they understand. 9/14/15 at 5:35 am - 527 chapel pickup - within mere feet of apartment bedroom windows, since they have to back into a very narrow driveway between two very close buildings. Takes them about 5 minutes or more of totally loud, painstaking maneuvering to do this address.

The idea that we have to get plate numbers -- I can see the company name if I haul out of bed - three years ago I took pictures and reported the company name. But to get the plates from my angle, I would have to go down to the street. We have over 400 police officers plus public works and livable cities. There is about a cop per city block in this city.

I can't even move fast enough at 5:30 in the morning (or 5) to go downstairs and write down plate numbers. If cops are that lazy, give me their pay, pension, and benefits and I will set my alarm at 4am, run around getting plate numbers, bring the officers breakfast in bed and brief their highnesses on the plate numbers I collected while they drink their morning coffee.

Thank you all for your concern and information, yes the comments are true a market plate is needed to cite the operator and company. I will remind the private companies of the unconvinience it causes residents when they begin doing their job early. Stay vigilant and keep the information coming, fed up, we are currently hiring if you would like to apply please go to the city of new haven website for information on the hiring process needed to join the Nhpd. Thank you the information

Cute Sgt. Means, thanks for the invitation. But I have to say your response is unacceptable. "I will remind the private companies of the unconvinience"

unconvivial or inconvenient?

Anyway, how about reminding them it is illegal?

How is this for a game plan:

1. It is no secret what their schedule is, all you have to do is follow up by assigning someone to patrol on the days and hours when they are known to be doing these rounds. It would take an hour or two at most.

2. You can also call the companies involved and let them know that it is ILLEGAL, not just 'inconvenient' and let them know the police will begin citing trucks they see -- and then actually do it, using method No 1 or some virtuoso police method you already know about that I don't.

I find your placating attitude unbelievable.

You engaged in dreaming up new punitive measures for panhandlers downtown. (Your department recently bragged about fining one $75 and when he can't pay will be be thrown in jail costing us $95 a day?)

Officers are busy trumping up kids and the poor all over on petty baseless stuff under some quality of life shtick but when some belligerent company, won't obey the law, after being warned - (and at least one of them has already been told) you talk like they deserve all kinds of deference, like they are some kind of community stakeholder, a PD client, a friend of the city. A polite call asking them to be more convenient

Since a mere rogue garbage hauler gets such deference from the city, surely, we should all invest in some scoflaw company to get perquisites from the NHPD, such as the right to sleep past 5am.

We deserve a district manager with some inspiration, who doesn't text her friends on the job, dream up new ways to criminalize the homeless while cow-towing to garbage haulers, and empties her maxed out voicemail more than once in a blue moon, if that .

And don't flag me because I can prove the texting thing. If I am flagged for that, I will upload the proof.

Speaking of flagging - word is NHPD is suspecting of flagging a facebook page of a new haven kid who posted a video of police recently. Time would be better spent dealing with a rogue garbage hauler.

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