'We send spaceships to other planets, but we can't build a bridge between the community and the police,' a New Haven resident said.
A public housing project in New Haven, a city of about 130,000 residents, gained national attention in 2014, whenon the tearing down of a 12-foot-tall chain link fence that was used to delineate the neighborhood from the border of Hamden.
"I call it Yale Haven," Canton said."Yale and these other Ivy League schools are in a land grab race, competing for endowment funds and land. They want to buy up properties to build expensive apartments, luxury living with the gyms and coffee houses and yoga studios. They're arguing that they're scaling up neighborhoods and gentrifying, but the reality is it's only for those who can afford it.
At a community forum in February, Janet Lindner, the vice president for human resources and administration at Yale, said the universityover the last three years and that 43 percent were black or Latino. Activists, however, criticized that some of the jobs are in construction or contract positions that are temporary.
The Black Students for Disarmament at Yale said it favors the school's officers being unarmed and restricted in where they can patrol off campus. The group on Friday plans to march students' letters of complaint to the Yale Police Department.
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