{"id":2012491,"date":"2023-08-25T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-students-given-grim-reaper-crime-survival-guides-by-police-union\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T23:39:11","slug":"yale-students-given-grim-reaper-crime-survival-guides-by-police-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-students-given-grim-reaper-crime-survival-guides-by-police-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale students receive crime survival guides from police union, featuring &#8216;Grim Reaper&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyale-students-given-grim-reaper-crime-survival-guides-by-police-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Welcome to Yale University: A Survival Guide<\/h2>\n<p>As students embark on their journey at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/yale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yale University<\/a>, they were \u200bgreeted \u2062with a unique \u200cwelcome package. The Ivy League school&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-police-union-president-far-left-infiltrated-capitol-protests\/\" title=\"Chicago Police Union President: Far-left infiltrated Capitol protests\">police union<\/a> distributed &#8220;Survival Guide for First-Year \u200bStudents\u2062 of\u2063 Yale\u2064 University&#8221; flyers, featuring\u2063 the ominous figure of the Grim\u2062 Reaper.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The incidence of crime and violence in New Haven is \u2062shockingly\u200d high, and it \u200cis getting worse,&#8221; \u200creads the flyer from the Yale Police Benevolent Association.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With a picture of a skull in \u2062a Grim Reaper hood,\u200c the flyer\u200b serves as a stark reminder of the \u2064challenges that\u200d students\u200b may face in New Haven, Connecticut, where Yale is located. The police union warns students about \u200bthe &#8220;shockingly high&#8221; crime rates and wishes them &#8220;good\u2063 luck&#8221; in navigating their new\u2063 surroundings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Murders\u200d have doubled,\u200d burglaries \u200dare up \u200d33%, and car thefts are up 56% in the seven months ending July 23, \u200cthe police union warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These flyers bear a striking \u2062resemblance to the \u2063infamous &#8220;Welcome to Fear City&#8221; flyers \u200cdistributed by the NYPD in\u200b the crime-ridden New York\u2063 City of the 1970s. \u200bHowever, the statistics\u200c provided by \u2062the police union are not to \u200cbe\u2062 taken lightly. City\u200d spokesman Len Speiller\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/news\/article\/yale-new-haven-police-crime-flyers-fact-check-18325538.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> the accuracy of these \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-inflation-metric-surges-again-makes-biggest-jump-since-june\/\" title=\"Key Inflation Metric Surges Again, Makes Biggest Jump Since June\">alarming data points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nevertheless, some Yalies do manage to survive New Haven \u2062and even retain their personal property,&#8221; the flyer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the grim outlook, the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-students-given-grim-reaper-crime-survival-guides-by-police-union\/\" title=\"Yale students receive crime survival guides from police union, featuring 'Grim Reaper'.\">police\u2062 union \u200boffers valuable safety \u2062advice<\/a> to\u200b students. They urge students to avoid \u200bthe streets after 8 p.m., refrain from walking \u2062alone, steer clear of public transportation, and stay on \u200dcampus for their \u2064own protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, both city and Yale officials have criticized the police union for distributing these unsettling flyers to incoming students. \u200bYale University officials labeled the flyers as &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and deemed them &#8220;disturbing and inflammatory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The\u2064 university supports the right of union members\u200c to rally\u2063 peacefully, but\u2064 today&#8217;s leafleting both ran counter \u2062to the spirit \u2062of the day and detracted from \u200cthe exemplary work performed by Yale Police officers,\u200d Public Safety team members, and their\u200c partners at \u200bthe New Haven Police Department,&#8221; Yale said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yale\u200d officials assert that \u2064robberies and burglaries have actually decreased on campus \u200cand\u200d in New Haven. The most\u2064 reported \u200dcrime on campus\u2062 is\u2063 the theft of unattended and \u200bunsecured laptops, cell phones, and motorized scooters.<\/p>\n<p>New\u200c Haven Mayor \u200bJustin Elicker strongly criticized the flyer,\u200c calling it &#8220;totally\u2064 offensive&#8221; and stating that it spreads false and scary information. He emphasized that\u200c crime rates in New Haven have\u2063 decreased since 2020, contrary to the flyer&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As the Mayor stated\u2062 at\u2062 the press conference, when you look most of \u2062the trends over \u2063time, crime is down,&#8221; said Speiller, the\u2063 city spokesman, adding \u200dthat \u200cyou can \u2064&#8221;cherry pick certain\u200b data \u2062points to\u2062 construct\u200c a \u200bfalse \u2063narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While\u200b the flyer may\u200d evoke memories of the\u200c 1970s New \u2063York City pamphlets that warned tourists to stay away, \u200cit is important to consider the context and the\u200c efforts being made to ensure the safety of Yale students. As they embark\u2062 on their academic journey, students must remain vigilant and take necessary precautions to\u200d navigate their new environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale University students received Grim Reaper flyers from the school&#8217;s police union as a crime &#8220;survival guide.&#8221; The guide, titled &#8220;Survival Guide for First-Year Students of Yale University,&#8221; cautions about the alarming crime rates in New Haven, Connecticut, and wishes them &#8220;good luck&#8221; in navigating the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2012492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}