This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Ending solitary confinement The College at Brockport will host a program titled “Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Solitary Confinement as Torture in the US Prison System” on Thursday, April 18. Melanie Funchess, director of […]
gun violence in Rochester
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RIT center focuses on gun violence and retaliation
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 […]
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Calls grow to stop shootings
Last month, five people were shot in Rochester in three separate shootings in a matter of four hours. Two of them died. Two days later, there was another gun-related homicide. There’s no single explanation for gun violence in Rochester, any more than there is in other cities. But the Reverend Lewis Stewart, president of United […]
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Religious leaders are called to help end gun violence
The Reverend Lewis Stewart, president of the United Christian Leadership Ministry, is calling on all of Rochester’s religious leaders to join together in a coordinated effort to stop gun violence in Rochester.
