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Residents seek emergency call boxes at Bunker Hill Park; mayor cites false alarms, pledges restroom cameras
Summary
Neighborhood leaders urged the Waterbury Board of Aldermen to add two "blue light" emergency call stations and a uniform park-closing time after a summer shooting; the mayor said officers found the incident isolated, warned the towers draw false alarms and said permanent restrooms with cameras tied to the real-time crime center will be installed instead.
The Waterbury Board of Aldermen heard a request on Jan. 8 from the Bunker Hill Neighborhood Association asking the city to reconsider a resolution seeking two emergency "blue light" call stations and a uniform closing time for Bunker Hill Park.
Ron Napoli, vice president of the association, told the board the neighborhood is generally safe but that a summer shooting there left residents shaken. Napoli asked that the board "reconsider your previous action of receiving our request and place it on file and look further into the possibility of giving us those two blue emergency stations." He…
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