FROM HPD
"On 08/05/17, patrol units responded to the area of 62 Edgewood Street for the report of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers located a male victim seated in a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Medical aid was provided until the arrival of EMS and Fire. The victim was transported to Saint Francis Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at 0706. Detectives from the Major Crimes Division, Crime Scene Division and an Inspector from the Hartford Chief State's Attorney's Office responded and assumed the investigation. Detective DeMatteo was assigned as the lead investigator. The investigation is on-going.
The victim has been identified as Patrick Granville 08/08/88"
Hartford has already exceeded last years total homicide count with 5 months still left in the year.
Hartford has already exceeded last years total homicide count with 5 months still left in the year.
76 comments:
Another outstanding hartford resident that choose a life of mischief and lawlessness instead of following simple rules of society. Where are the protestors to march against the latest murder? The mayor is also missing in action. He is probably too busy writing his west indian parade speech to his north end residents.
I thought Luke promised to clean up Hartford and hire more police officers so we can reduce murders, etc? Isn't that what he ran on in the first place? I don't like how you've been very lenient on our current Mayor and so brutal on our former Mayor (I'm not a Segarra supporter either). When do we start holding Bronin's ass to the fire?
4:20pm
please go to the search bar at the top of the blog and enter Bronin and leadership and I think you will find several of my postings critical of Bronin and his lack of leadership after his election. I have posted about his lack of a plan to move Hartford forward as well as his dangerous game he is playing with Public Safety in Hartford
Cry us a river
18 murders so far this year. Will Hartford break its own murder record this year?
Hartford CT has consistently made the top 10 worst cities in the country to live in and top 10 most violent, and now top 10 most broke. This didn't happen all of a sudden, this goes back years. Nothing has changed then, nothing will change now. The only thing that will change this is drastic measures that have never been done before. That starts with backing police and supporting aggressive proactive policing. All these touchy feely criminal coddling, young minds aren't developed, second chance BS is NOT working. We've seen every possible program like prosperity etc etc etc tried.....what has the result been? More and more homicides. This city and state will never get it.
What's the record?
This situation won't change until the opiate black market is effectively dealt with.
How you do that is the golden question...
Before opiates it was crack cocaine.....it's always something. With or without opiates, that's not going to change anything. Sorry, your wrong.
Anyone remember the movie American Gangster with Denzel Washington? The character he played the big time drug dealer Frank Lucas? His was secretly living here in Connecticut and was attending Southern University in New Haven he was just found dead in his dorm room the plot thickens
Luke Bronin is completely ignoring the commonly occurring homicides like nothing is going on, yet he was standing next to Danny Malloy regarding the recent press conference on criminal justice reform. Bronin is way beyond a complete failure. He ranks right with Malloy as the worst in the nation. At least he's accomplished something.
Kevin FYI HPD b squad patrol is running with 21 cars for the city tonight. 1 car under the mandatory minimum.
Sounds like that's something the union should be addressing, not the blog.
There is no minimum number of cars Check. Ask around to see the written policy ?? Buck shot rovella could put 15 cars if he desired. Those numbers are more like guide lines. Obviously u cant put 10 cars out there. The broken system has been here as long as my 17 yrs in patrol. Remeber car 7. Car 23. But i will say that the now filled 10-6 cars does help. Between 1300 and 1500 all the natives wake and wander the plains of the city. So im sure long or buyak on the 2nd came up with that logical idea.
work them pjs. One call at a time. Take that 30 min federal mandated lunch break every 8 hrs.
Does anyone here understand "no money?" We gots no money. And it wasn't his fault. The most important thing he can do is to stabilize income and expense. To that end, receivership is the only option. And reset the agreements and contracts.
As to the street violence, you can't stop the barios of PR from emptying and arriving here to enjoy easy pickings.
What are ya gonna do?
Its becoming very clear that HPD will continue to bleed cops. There is no plan to put through another class after this one wraps up and meanwhile the violence in Hartford continues to spiral out of control. I have said many times on this blog that the thugs have become emboldened that crimes are being conducted in public and during the daytime in plain view. The whole soft on crime has been a failure and I fear it will take a gruesome criminal act on some suburbanite leaving D&D park after a ball game before Bronin does anything with HPD.
Day or night, crime took control over the City of Hartford.
Reality that crime is apparent across this country is not new. Federal government releases the funds. Public housing was established after World War ll. It is out of control in 2017. Owners love section 8. Owners purchase complexes. They rent to families with children who are exposed to daily crime and have food stamps, health care and on and on.... I disagree the Hartford Yard Goats had many sell out games. The new stadium is the best in the USA. Folks from the greater Hartford region and Hartford residents love baseball and the Hartford Yard Goats!!!! Developers promised many things to the North Zone. When is it going to start?
There are valid points in every post. You could have 47 cars on the street, doesn't mean you can prevent every senseless act of violence 24/7. Some people choose the lifestyle they live, so live by the sword, die by the sword. Maybe if the latest victim wasn't in a high crime neighborhood at 3am, and instead tried to live a productive life and become a normal member of society, then he would still be here. The community needs to take some responsibility for their streets, their children, and stop blaming others when senseless tragedies occur, which more often than not are caused by the victims own actions. If i was a Hartford tax paying resident, I would really ask myself why i still choose to live in a community with such high crime, taxes,and a community full of people who for the most part, don't contribute to society. I feel bad for the residents who like living there as they like the history and culture, but for some reason think the place will become Mayberry USA. Sorry folks, until you end welfare and free handouts, you are stuck with a group of people who will leech until nothing is left. So take my advice and choose a nice suburban town, one with no real violent crime, homicides, or with residents that leech who far outnumber those that contribute. That unbalanced number of leeches to contributors is how all city's fail. Wake up good people of Hartford, time to reevaluate your city.
BRING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD.
Hartford is nowhere near the record for homicides in 1994 there were 58 homicides it was the height of the Los Solidos-Latin Kings- 20 Love gang war. Back then we had 41 patrol cars(37 regular units and 4 two man directed patrol units) 10 crime suppression cars (all 2 man) and about 25 walking beats. Not to mention the State Police and Feds working with the Gang task force. It was so blatant people were getting shot with a marked unit half a block away. The names of the kids being arrested now are the same as then. Kids of the old G's are following in their fathers footsteps. It was easier to police then because the crimes were concentrated in the housing projects and it was still totally out of control. There is no easy answer to reducing violence in Hartford. I worked for a dozen different administrations, the complaints from the officers are the same they have been for the past 30 years. "The administration doesn't know what they are doing." The only thing this shows is the lack of knowledge of what the administration does and what resources they have available to utilize. The PD cannot solve the societal ills of the City. The Chief works hard to try and get you guys what you need to do the job as best you can. I can also tell you that the other chiefs work just as hard doing the same thing. Now with only two captains it's even harder for them. I'm just giving my 2 cents and what the hell do I know I only spent 29.5 years there and only 20 of it on the street.
What does RENDOCK actually do around here? Tell me. Explain in simple 3rd grade language what his job actually is.
Like the time you recoved an 83 and tried to be mr esd and acidentally 89 chris lyons in the head, two cents from you depinto should be used for laundry. Please fade into the sunset with 1/4 th of your retirement.
Rendock did clean all the black mold in the mens locker room. Since city yard employees made excuses that they needed a power washer
Hey brookman. Tell your pal foley that i hate him.
Signed- two thirds or dept.
Lol, Karma, gee looks like you know what your talking about Chris wasn't even there, he just got stuck with the discharge report for the cylinder of a rimfire gun falling on the ground. Anyway Rendock handles CHRO, Labor Board, Law suits, Purchasing, Grants, The computer systems,
hiring and firing and about 100 other things that have to get done. The stuff that someone has to do to keep you guys getting paid and taking care of the things you need. It's a thankless job that he does without bitching about it. Some of you have no idea how hard the command staff works to get the things you need.
Thank u!!!
20 of it on the street......doing basically nothing. Then 9.5 years buried inside shuffling paperwork, which was usually messed up by you. Stop please, one thing you are, is a good historian.
To all of the anonymous posters.
It is tough being a Hartford Police Officer. Non stop calls, crooks running all over the place in certain areas and having to confront spectators with cell phones questioning your every move yet not having the courage to step up and assist to make their own community a safer one.
Manpower is down and more officers need to be on the street. Visibility deters crime and that is a proven fact plus there needs to be an aggressive routing out of the violent criminal element as a benefit to the community and just as important for your officer safety.
The attacks on Chief Rovella are scurrilous. He does a fine job with the resources he has and that is about 125 police officers less than he needs. When I was active the department was staffed with six beat officers on Albany Avenue, five on Park Street, several downtown including a contingent of fixed post traffic officers plus foot beats, two shift coverage in Stowe Village, a B squad Bellevue Square two officer beat and directed patrol vehicles each with two officers. the 6 pm to 2 am shift had two dozen officers most nights and there was a lot of coverage and backup. And that does not include any investigative units which were fully staffed.
HPD officers are the best.
Trump needs to send the feds into Hartford just like how he sent them to Chicago. Secondly, all welfare, ebt, free healthcare and section 8 payments should be ceased if you get arrested and or if your a single unwed mom with children you cannot support. I guarantee if the state imposed these restrictions crime would drop to zero. We'd have the same call volume as Canton PD if we did what i suggest.
Easy on The Canton PD...
They showers aren't even clean. They are still filled with white mildew and disgusting mold filled shower curtains. Along with the flooded first 2 rows of lockers. DPW is a joke just like the rest of this city and HPDs command staff. How long is it going to take to fix the teleserve Windows. Complete f'ing joke. Im embarassed to say im a Hartford Cop.
Not even close East Haven Baby
SCURRILOUS!!! What a great word . . .guess your years working at Trinity College paid off, Chris, LOL. Thanks for the perspective from the 90's. Readers needed to see those stats. And you're also right about Chief Rovella. Folks need to lay off the relentless criticism. His tenure is probably nearing its end because Bronin/Mini-Me will need yet another scapegoat for his poor leadership and conduct.
Anyways, can anyone believe that after 10 years as Hartford State's Attorney's, Gail Hardy FINALLY got something right?? I couldn't believe it was her quotes in the Courant the other day, re: cause-and-effect of the Legislature's BIG error in raising the juvy offender age/rules. The joy-riding and stolen car epidemic that can quickly lead to more heinous crimes needs to end ASAP. Something could be done in the special budget session if city and state politicians got together and voted to fix the language. Here's some of that good analysis, long overdue:
"All these kids met up while they were in juvenile detention," Hardy said. "You have the law that requires them to be treated differently. When they go over to juvenile court, they can't be held on these cases and nothing serious happens to them so they continue their behavior."
"Juveniles accused of stealing cars are released to their parents, guardians or juvenile probation officers, she said. They could be detained before the change in the law . . .
Hardy said the legislature needs to revisit the new laws."
"We need to go back to the legislature and talk about how we deal with these kids who are arrested for what the legislature deems to be nonviolent offenses, Hardy said."
Than quit
Rovella should come out of his office and tell the rank and file how good of a job he is doing. The guy hasn't bothered to address the men and women at roll call. Ever! His biggest flaw was never connecting with the uniformed personnel. Love him or hate him, DKR made it a point to know every officer's name.
I totally agree. Our Hartford Police Chief James Rovella is doing an outstanding job with the present resources. Hartford Police are the FINAST!!!!
Do not complain? Law enforcement is a tough job. In 2017 guns, drugs, robbery and abuse are prevalent everywhere. There is no running from crime. Hartford Police need everyone to be on board. A tip can save a life. HPD are the BEST!!!!
I agree with with your frustrations. Things have been alot more stressful for those of us rowing the ship. I can say that I have always been proud to wear this uniform and to call myself a Hartford Police Officer. If you honestly feel that way and your not just venting it may be time for you to seek employment elsewhere. These are difficult times for all of us. There could be a mass Exodus on the horizon equal to or great then the Fire Dept. Depending on the out come of arbitration. If you think things are bad now there's the potential for things to get a hole lot worse. You better start looking now.
Give me a brake. Become a Policeman and see what it is all about. I have the highest regard for every retired or present Hartford Police Officer. They have a very tough job!!!
Bigger issues then filthy workplace locker rooms. 50 j was much worse. The city, state and every citizen should be nervous about WW3. The money will be deverted to defense instead of hartford section 8 and failing htfd schools.
Hard to believe how easy people forget! Does anybody else remember when that punk got tasered 3 years ago in the capitol city and the fine, upstanding,well informed, intelligent people/preachers/leaders of Hartford marched down the street spewing cop hating rhetoric? Remember who marched down the street with them under the false narrative of " trying to better understand the community we serve" ? CHIEF ROVELLA , THATS WHO! I can't imagine being a cop and having this guy leading the way! I fee bad for you guys.
Big big big changes coming to HPD!
Saddle up babies!!!!
So ummmmmmmmm wheres the headline post for the West Indian Parade telling people to come out and support the community and to leave the violence at home ????
Why would I post that? Do I look like the social calendar?
Let's move on to more pressing topic. Luke will pull the plug in September when the money runs out. Any bets? Kevin, you may hold the money and get 10% of the loot.
I am not sure about September, but I am pretty confident that Luke is in way over his head, much more than he expected on the political launching pad that was supposed to jettison his political career to greatness, at least in his mind, instead it has done the total opposite and his political career is pretty much dead
Regardless of Hartford, I don't think Luke Bronin has ever possessed any leaders qualities.....he would've been horrible wherever he was a mayor.
@8:50pm that whole charade was a total disgrace. Pretty much said the chief doesn't back his officers even when they were in the RIGHT. I'll never forget that clown show.
Who is Luke Bronin? Where is Luke Bronin? Is he still Hartford Mayor?
Bronin has never possessed any leadership qualities that is. He is a failure who is just out of touch with people. He is not remotely transparent and does whatever he wants to do. But why should we have expected any less? After all his protégé is Dannel Malloy, top three of the worst governors in the nation.
8:55 pm , I can't thank you enough ,, I sometimes think I'm the only one living with recent memories swimming in my head. Rovella should have never got a pass on that stupid decision.
Hey brian,
All depts require a masters degree to be chief. So u should google the phoenix now if you still think its going to happen in this world or the next. The second floor is going to get flushed shortly and it is best to prep for the next saga. To bad east htfd would not throw you a bone, but samson is smarter then you think.
Good luck with things. Adios .....
Trump is a joke complete mayhem in Charlottesville and somehow he blames Obama for that? Not to mention police have yet to step now pedestrians getting plowed in the streets that idiot invited a civil war now hes backpedalling
All departments do not require a masters degree to be chief, that's misinformation. Chief Hawkins in EH does not have a masters degree, I believe he has a GED. However with the rest of your statement, I agree.
Sgt. Rodney......please check your grammar and spelling before you post comments. FINEST, FINEST, FINEST.......smh.
Sgt. Rodney......please check your grammar and spelling before you post comments. You might want to put the brakes on regarding your comments lately! Break, not brake for god sakes!!!
He's our president 4:52!!! Aaaaahahahhhhah and he's way better than that loser Obama
Chief Rovella handles the troops great. He is great. The residents spoke higly of his duties. My office is always open for feedsback.
You're a moron he's at 33% approval rating worst cabin administration in
US history and after that debacle in VA his speech addressing the situation further decline is on the way he's an embarrassment to the people and this country
That speech addressing the nation was terrible
You office is always open for feedback Rodney, not feedsback.
I believe what 11:33 is trying to convey is that most police department's across the nation require a Master's for the position of Chief of Police. Hawk and Rob Davis were hired as deputy chiefs with only HS diplomas, and only because Samson took care of them. Should they apply elsewhere for the position of Chief of Police they will not be considered upon review if their resume. Please educate yourself and do your due diligence before making assumptions. As for Foley, if indeed he doesn't even have a bachelors then he will not even be considered for the top spot anywhere unless he has political ties within the hiring town.
Sgt Andrew Rodney is a class act you Jabronis are pathetic he loves the city and tell job and wadda ya know he's actually a Hartford resident that grew up there you jealous haters are so pissed he doesn't fit ya steretype well guess what
T he will be your chief one day with Big Paul and finally some real changes will be made the glorious good ole boy days will be a thing of the past
You are completely wrong 8:55 PM. In CT, a masters degree is NOT a POST requirement. It is the town or cities preference as far as a degree goes. For one example, DC James Barry to Trumbull then Manchester PD. Sorry to burst your bubble and offend you for disliking Foley, but he could be a chief anywhere. To much emphasis is placed on a college degree. Work history and performance are much better predictable factors. Town's like the degree for what it represents but at the end of the day it cannot prepare you like hands on street and management experience. You should educate yourself and do your due diligence before making false statements and assumptions. My post is factual.
Chief Ford is in the mix fellas. Dont count out the flatliner. Luke still needs the northend vote. This is a fact. Why you think they allowed the west indian parade. Thody can go hang with dagle in cali. West will be a Captain. Aceept it. Embrace it. There are big changes coming down the street. Put everyone in patrol. Plenty of new meat willing to do the det work. Ford will put the teleserve troopers to work.
The struggle is real. Team Austin / Rodney / Bronin already have it on lock down. Sorry.
Its going to be funny when the news media does a story about the 3 plus monthes the teleserve windows are still broken. I bet if that was city hall , would be fixed quick. Keep up the good work deputy chief dustin rendock.
Ford will never be chief for many reasons. Rodney did not grow up in HTFD and West will be DC so 1009 pm stfu with your lies.
When the new chief gets here. He is going to clean house. Full authority from bronin. The ink is dry and the uniforms have been ordered. Get ready little ducks for some S P corrective retraining.
Thody as AC ?
7:05pm
I wouldn't place any bets on that yet. I know there will be a lot of push back from the community over previous baggage from what I am hearing and the calls I am getting
There is absolutely no way the new chief from CSP will allow Thody to be an AC or DC, and that's for dam sure.
Thody is a POS period ill never forget when he was at Black Eyed Sallys fighting two marines while drunk Otto and Ragno were sent to the call we were all working downtown special Otto pulled Thody off one of the marines and Thody attacked Otto and tried to pull rank lost his bars fought it through the Union and got them back he was never item A lets see public intoxication breach of peace assaulting an officer and he's being considered for AC? That place is disgusting the way it protects certain people and that was only one incident I was there id put my name to it nut dont want those bastards upstairs harassing me
Thody needs to ride off into the sunset and take that garbage power DMS with him.
Read my post again but only this time without your angry eyes. I never said it was a POST requirement. It is up to the individual towns to designate the type of requirements. You have obviously never applied for a Chief's position anywhere and most likely not even a supervisor. Go back to your pj and fatten your pension as much as you can because I am pretty sure you will not be marketable after retirement. Maybe Bernier can hire you at CCMC as a security guard.
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