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Volume 12, Number 48
Recruits wanted for citizens police academy By Everett Bishop The Citizen
If you’ve ever wanted a behind-the-scenes look at law enforcement work, the North Haven Police Department has just the program for you.
Robert Boyles, owner of Cockeyed Crow Bar and Grill, and daughter Lindsay, manager of the new business at 630 Washington Ave., North Haven. Photos by Dave Zajac, Record-Journal
Cockeyed Crow Bar & Grill opens on Washington Ave. By Bailey Wright Record-Journal staff
NORTH HAVEN — You may notice some familiar faces behind the counter at the newest bar in town, Cockeyed Crow Bar & Grill. The business was opened by longtime Meriden bar owner Robert Boyles and his friend and business partner Tim Goudace. Robert Boyles’ daughter Lindsay Boyles, who has been involved in his Meriden pub— Scotty O’Boyles — since she was 18, is managing the staff and helping run the new business. “We're not going for the restaurant vibe, we're going for more of the bar vibe with food available,” Lindsay Boyles said of the North Haven location. The new bar is at 630 Wash-
The department will host a seven-week course looking at police work from various angles. The citizens academy will be held Wednesdays, 6 to 8:30
ington Ave., in an otherwise empty plaza next to Wharton Brook State Park. “This building had so much potential and I just feel like nobody put the effort into it,” Lindsay Boyles said. If things go well, the group hopes to rent the adjacent
plaza space and extend the bar and restaurant further. Besides the owners and some similar entertainment, Cockeyed Crow Bar & Grill won’t just be a second location of Scotty O’Boyles. It’s bigger, it has double the See Bar & grill, A13
“The academy is a program designed to meet with the public to provide them insights on what it is exactly police do, why it is we do some of the things that we do … and ultimately the biggest goal is to build that relationship with the community,” said Sergeant Joe Woznyk. See Academy, A6
Former ACLU head discusses hate speech, censorship By Everett Bishop The Citizen
The dining room of the new Cockeyed Crow Bar & Grill.
p.m., beginning April 1.
As social media giants such as Facebook and YouTube make headlines for attempting to root out hate speech on their platforms, former ACLU president Nadine Strossen says this – a form of censorship – may be a step in the wrong direction. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, Strossen spoke along with interim Executive Vice President and Provost Jennifer Gerarda Brown about the implications of censorship at Quinnpiac’s School of Law Center. “Hate is an emotion, and what one person hates
someone else loves … it’s always impossible to come up with an objective definition,” Strossen said. In her book “Hate: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship,” Strossen does the work of examining the effectiveness of censorship in limiting hate speech. She says censorship isn’t only “ineffective,” it also can be “counterproductive.” “In the recent history of how the more open-ended libel laws were enforced, they were being enforced against the Civil Rights movement repeatedly,” Strossen said. See Censorship, A10