Slash Your Neighbor’s Tires or use Community Mediation Instead?

Hamden-based CMI, Inc., secures another $2,000 grant from Branford Community Foundation to continue to provide mediation services for police-referred issues as well as housing issues over establishing a fair rent commission.

Yesterday Channel 3’s Robert Goulston reported that a Milford man admitted to slashing the tires of 15 of his neighbors’ cars as retaliation after they called the police on him. Via Twitter, Branford resident Joe Brummer responded “Sounds like a great case for mediation.”

Brummer is the Associate Executive Director of Hamden-based Community Mediation Inc., and one of the key mediators recently charged with looking at neighborly disputes in Branford, much like the one mentioned above. So far, though, Brummer has not had to deal with angry residents slashing each other’s tires, he said.

[Read the rest of the article at Patch.com here]