It is all over the City. Youth on dirt bikes and ATVs on public streets and in the parks terrorizing people. The police say they can't chase them because there is a no-chase policy in New Haven. Who thought that up?

I have called in kids driving down Chapel Street in Downtown and had the no chase policy response also.
I understand that its for public safety, but there has to be a way to stop these kids.

no change. worse now that school is out. Recent N.H.Register article highlighted environmental damage to woodland trails caused by such vehicles, yet our "city's" newspaper made NO mention of the urban menace these have caused. Photo showed young suburban adolescents on their vehicles, lamenting how boring it is to just ride around on their back lawns. Why do parents buy these sound-and-air polluting vehicles for their kids??? Particularly when they know they likely will be used illegallly?

I'm now using new police phone # for this problem: 946-6956. Seems to be helping. Very sad that it required the death of a teen--and a new police chief--to finally get this problem addressed

Slightly better now that new police chief has prioritized this [unfortuntely only after a teen was killed...] but still a problem on Howard & Greenwich Aves. I tried the new police # [see my 8/3 comment] and--got an answering maching!

Slightly better now that new police chief has prioritized this [only after a teen died...] but still a big problem on Howard & Greenwich Aves. I tried the new police ph. # for this problem [see 8/3 comment] and...got an answering machine!

check the following link for current state law re. ATV, dirtbikes etc. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2007/pub/Chap255.htm

FINALLY a police chief who understand the REAL issue: "It's an issue of contempt for the neighborhoods, contempt for community members, contempt for the city." Chief Lewis 4/26/09