In addition to illegal dirt bikes and many other quality of life issues, residents of New Haven face a new challenge: cars with exhaust systems modified to simulate the sounds of gun fire. Besides disturbing the peace and quiet of law abiding residents, these drivers divert valuable and increasingly scarce resources from the NHPD. Estimates are that about 50% of the time the NHPD is dispatched to a shots-fired call, the source of the noise is actually one of these cars with an illegally modified exhaust system. The public has had enough.

Please join me in demanding that Mayor Elicker and the Board of Alders provide the funding and support necessary so the NHPD can put an end to the madness.

Dennis Serfilippi