Esserman Back In New Haven, Walking Beat

By On January 3, 2012 · 2 Comments

Dean Esserman has returned to find a warm, hero’s welcome in the city where he started his police career.

If only the new police chief can stop attending wakes for young men killing each other.

“The face of violence in New Haven is the face of violence in every city. We are losing our young,” Esserman says as we ride together to another wake this one for a 27-year-old shot shortly before Christmas.

Esserman straightens his uniform and walks in to promise another grieving family that things will change. The chief offers a few of his much-discussed embraces and makes a request to the young men he sees: “Allow the police department to bring some justice here.”

 
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2 Responses to Esserman Back In New Haven, Walking Beat

  1. Dionna says:
    June 12, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Forewarned is forearmed.

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