Crime & Safety
Ridgefield: Swastikas Return to Ballard Park
The hate graffiti has been a recurring crime in town.
RIDGEFIELD, CT -- Police discovered three swastikas on a wooden fence in Ballard Park on Wednesday, May 23, the Ridgefield Press is reporting.
Swastika graffiti has been a recurring problem in town, dating back at least until 2014, when Ridgefield High School Principal Stacey Gross wrote an impassioned letter to parents upon the discovery of two swastikas painted on school grounds.
Ridgefield High and Ballard Park have not been the only targets for the vandals. In January, following the discovery of five swastikas drawn outside the Masonic Lodge and Aldrich Museum, the Anti-Defamation League offered a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.
Two more, and more recent, incidents of swastika graffiti on school grounds occurred in neighboring Wilton last October.
For more on the story, see The Ridgefield Press.
