Don't forget there is (or was anyway) a Dirt Bike Tipline: 203-946-6098.

Funny thing is that the PD actually responds fairly quickly sometimes to the dirt bikes but when we call on the dealers and prostitutes walking all messed up even during the day with kids outside playing the cops take their sweet time to respond

As soon as you see this phone the police district manager

Funny thing is that there's a dirt bike in this picture, which is nothing compared to the store in the background (on Ferry & Chambers) which sells drugs and the house to the right also sell drugs and is a crackhouse that has prostitutes going in and out of all day. Police are trying to close the store with no luck yet. There's much more going on in this picture alone than just a dirt bike, which I also saw at least 5-6 last night coming home.

No More

Your post alerted them that they are being noticed and to be more careful.

XYZ, Alerted who? If you're talking about the store, the PD knows drugs are being dealt there (Jay-Nez) and the house next door and are hoping to close the store for good like they have a few others throughout New Haven that have been dealing drugs. If you know of any areas (houses/stores/street corners, etc.) that drugs are being dealt, inform the NHPD. They know most of the places and are building cases to make the arrests solid and stick, but you may have someplace they are unaware. It's pretty easy to find where the most drugs are, just follow the crack whores and crackheads, who are very easy to identify they all look like lowlife homeless zombies and you will find where the most drugs are.

You be alerting the criminals that they are being watched which in turn may make them be more careful.

Elizabeth

You should think twice about using your real name,

No, XYZ, you can't be farther from the truth. The click fix posts about the dirt bikes in previous years was a key element of organizing concerned residents, local politicians, city hall, and state legislators, who in the end were able to pass legislation raising the fee to re-possess dirt bikes after confiscation. Have you noticed the dramatic decline in dirt bike activity this summer? It's because the dirt bikes have largely been confiscated and the fee, as opposed to years past, is to steep for dirt bikers to re-possess their bikes. Clickfixers played a very large role in helping law enforcement to solve the issues (providing them with new tools to get the dirt bikes off the street). We want effective law enforcement, but aren't satisfied to leave them to their own devices.

It can not be proven that See Click Fix Posts are the reason for the improvement in the dirt bike issue .
When you report drug dealing it is giving a heads up to the people involved and you my be hampering any police investigation that may be going on. It is better to call the police district manager.

XYZ. Though correlation does not always prove causation, the dramatic decrease in dirt bikes on the streets this summer does seem proof that the new law, and so in effect the click fixers, made a big difference (it was click fixers who played a very large part in mobilizing, strategizing, and advocating for the new law).

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/teen_dirt_biker_fails_to_sway_the_adults/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/dillon_seeks_stiffer_dirt_bike_penalties/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/extra_extra/dirt_bike_bill_clears_house/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/dirt_bikers_derailed/

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/dirt-biking_now_costs_1000_not_99/

Look if you want to report dirt bikes here fine but it will be better if it was report by phone because you do not know when the proper authorities will read the posts.

Please take photos when you can (yes I know they go by fast) and phone/email with any details:
(203) 946-6098
and kjacobson@newhavenct.net

as outlined in the article here:http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/seven_towns_team_up_against_dirt_bikers/

You do not want to be noticed taking photos for your own safety.

If you know where dirt bikes, quads and ATVs are garaged, report it to the New Haven Police Criminal Intel Unit. The officer in charge is:

Sergeant Karl Jacobson
New Haven Police Department
Criminal Intel Unit/Narcotics
One Union Ave, New Haven CT
phone: (203) 946-6098
Fax: (203) 946-6293
e-mail: kjacobson@newhavenct.net

He will respond to emails and calls. If you report a known ATV or dirt bike location to him, he will investigate and confiscate the machines.

Thank you for your participation in the constructive dialogue regarding this issue. As The New Haven Police Department does not actively monitor this site, we ask that future incidents be reported directly through the NHPD non-emergency line at (203)946-6316.
For information on storage locations of ATVs and other illegal vehicles, please call (203)946-6098 (reports can be made anonymously). Community members are always welcome to notify their respective District Manager; however, it’s important that people don’t telephone their District Manager to report an incident which is currently taking place, but instead telephone the incident into the non-emergency line to have officers dispatched. We appreciate your concern and help in addressing this matter.