Yale University and New Haven officials are blasting the labor union for college police for handing out flyers with grim reaper depictions warning new students about high crime in the city and offering safety tips.
School and city officials called the handouts a misleading scare tactic by a union seeking a new contract.
The pamphlet is a close copy of an infamous leaflet, entitled “Welcome to Fear City,” that New York City’s police and firefighter unions distributed in 1975 to visitors arriving at the airport. That flyer was put out as the unions fought a plan by New York’s mayor to lay off thousands of police officers and other government workers to avoid bankruptcy.
“It’s inappropriate and it is fear mongering,” Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell said at the news conference. “We do not support this, and to be quite frank I’m really disgusted that they have chosen to take this path.” The contract for the 71 officers and detectives in the union expired last month, and negotiations, which began last year, continue.
The union’s flyer used statistics from just a short period to make the case that crime is rising, noting that the city had reported 14 killings through July 23 compared with seven during the same seven-month period last year. It also noted that burglaries and vehicle thefts rose during the same period.In the downtown police district, which includes part of Yale’s sprawling campus, there have been no murders this year and there were none last year during the same time period, police data show.
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