Since 2000 there have been nearly 3,000 shootings in Rochester, resulting in about 3,655 shooting victims. And only 20 percent of the shootings resulted in an arrest, according to police records. Rochester’s shooting rate is not dramatically different from other cities, says Irshad Altheimer, director of the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Public Safety […]
Action for a Better Community
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Perspectives: James Norman
Few people have developed a better understanding of the area’s poverty, the needs of low-income families and children, and the importance of fostering self-sufficiency than the retiring president and CEO of Action for a Better Community.






