"Blocking" is the term I used to say that groups of 10-20 people are actively dealing drugs making clear passage impossible. Pedestrians other than us must divert over from the path to the grass to navigate this path properly. It is impossible to walk through these groups. I think anyone would have an obvious problem with this illegal behavior. Drug dealing falls squarely under the city's contract with the Green ordinances which ban the "selling of anything without a permit". It's fair to say that drug dealing is "selling".

Hello Newcomer,

None of my homeless friends and I are deterring anyone from traversing the Green. Welcome to New Haven. We hope you enjoy your time here.

The problem isn't homeless, it's the blatant drug dealing

Contact
Abigail Roth
Ward7@newhavenct.gov
42 Lincoln Street 06511-3806 203-535-5338

Newcomer,

You need to sugarcoat your comments on this platform, lest they be blocked. SeeClickFix uses very stringent content filters. Personally, I would love to read your comments; however, the powers that be will not allow that to be permissible, so please post your previous comments again using the terminology we all learned in kindergarten.

Contact
Abigail Roth
Ward7@newhavenct.gov
42 Lincoln Street 06511-3806 203-535-5338
40 minutes ag

Thank you Tommy. I think Drug dealing is a proper and permissible label for the truth. New Haven is beautiful and the police need to clear the Green or illegal drug dealing. I think 10-20 people clustered around a bench is rather unacceptable.

Thank you XYZ for your suggestion, I have contacted Abigail Roth and will hope for the best.

Thanks XYZ, but there is little Abby can do when there are no laws being broken. This is a case of people who don't feel comfortable around other people of certain demographics.

Good luck and welcome to New Haven

Dealing is illegal.

Tommy, the original post mention drug dealing which is against the law and let Abby decide what can and can't be done

Tommy, the original post mention dr*g dealing which is against the law. Also let Abby decide what can be done and can't, How do you know as you put it, "this is a case of people who don't feel comfortable around other people of certain demographics"? Do you know what demographics Newcomer is from?

XWY,
Abby doesn't decide the law and there are no laws being broken among me and my friends.

Newcomer,

None of my friends and I are dealing anything. Good luck with your endeavors. You're not doing anything to help our city. You're just creating conflicts between the homeless and the non-homeless. I've seen this so many times over the past several years. It always ends the same way.

An NHPD officer will speak with you and explain to you that nobody is breaking any laws.

Thank you.

Newcomer, sometimes the best way to deal with Tommy, is to ignore him

Hello,

The Green is actually in Ward 1, so Alder Eli Sabin (ward1@newhavenct.gov) is the best person to reach out to about issues in general connected to the Green.

Sincerely, Abby

Thank you Abby for your guidance. I appreciate it.

Sorry, my error .

You were very helpful XYZ, thank you.

XYZ,

In this case, no laws are being broken. We will only be wasting the time of the NHPD. They have enough work to do. Haven't you seen this over the years? It's the same thing every time. Nobody is breaking any laws. I've been through this routine so many times. The cops show up and we shoot the breeze for several minutes. They then explain they had to come to the Green because someone complained about whatever. This is a complete waste of time. It's no different than someone complaining that there are people with Harvard sweatshirts hanging around Yale property.

Do you remember when people were overdosing on the green?
Is that what you want to see?

Tommy,do you remember when people were overdosing on the green?
Is that what you want to see?

XYZ,
That was a completely different scenario from this issue. You're just projecting what you want to hear. That doesn't work. Try again?

XYZ -- You took the words right out of my ... keyboard. I remember that big, multiple ODs situation on the Green a year or so ago. Tommy, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there is drug use and dealing on the Green all the time. Everyone who has spent any time at all in a city, even a small one like this, knows it when they see it; it is all so tiresomely obvious. And it's a bummer and does detract from people's use and enjoyment of an important public space. Unless, of course, they're looking for drugs.

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And you don't, Tommy.

As a follow up: I contacted the Alderman for Ward 7 and lodged my complaint. I heard back quickly with an explanation and a course of action, and I'm very pleased to report that the police positioned squad cars on The Green by the bench off of Temple and at the flag pole.
I have great gratitude to our beautiful city's government and police!

Correction: Ward 1

Newcomer, thanks for calling. You are already making New Haven a better place to live.

And with your guidance and help. Thank you

Your welcome

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