New Haven: No More Mr. Nice Guys

Saying that “collaboration” didn’t work, the mayor and police chief vowed a crackdown on Crown Street clubs and clubgoers in the wake of last weekend’s shoot-out with the cops.

Police Chief Frank Limon (at center in top photo) and Mayor John DeStefano announced the crackdown Tuesday afternoon at a press conference at the entrance to the Crown Street Garage.

They stood at the spot where a fight may have started between two groups of young men shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday and escalated into a shoot-out that involved the cops.

Limon and DeStefano responded to intense public concern and calls for action in town following the incident, in which dozens of shots appear to have been fired once the fight moved around the corner to College Street. The cops fired some of those bullets. Two men allegedly involved in the fight were injured in the incident; the details remain largely unclear as the police continue investigating.

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