Last night, as seems to happen about once a month now, the neighbors had an extremely loud party. I have my suspicions that it’s actually some unpermitted dance club, judging by the sheer number of people. Anyway, the music usually starts around 10pm (last night it was 9), and doesn’t end. A couple months ago, I thought they might stop this because their party broke up when the ambulance came.
By loud music (and loud people), I mean that I can hear every word of every song, and that the dishes are rattling in the cabinets.
Around 2 a.m., the party evolved into what it usually does–some kind of fight or almost-fight in the middle of the street. The music was still going. The police were notified of a noise complaint.
As of at least 45 minutes later, the cops never went by.
I understand that this kind of thing is not priority if all hell is breaking loose, but contrary to what the fear-mongers at WFSB would have you believe, there are not kids being shot and stabbed in Hartford every single night.
There are noise ordinances for a reason–so the whole neighborhood doesn’t take their hostility to violence against the offenders when they become so sleep deprived from being forced to listen to really bad music at decibels that even earplugs won’t block.