Choosing a mayor, restructuring the police
Rochester Police Department
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Car 54, where are you?
There are areas in the city of Rochester where people are not getting adequate police service. “The inequality of the calls for service right now in some areas compared to other areas, I think, [is] startling,” says City Council President Lois Giess. According to a study commissioned by the Rochester Police Department, there […]
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Reader Feedback 10.2.02
The real pain Listening to President Bush’s bellicose speeches against Saddam, I am reminded of the old surgical practice performed in classical Greece. As an anesthetic, the surgeon would induce a new pain more severe than the pain the surgery would cause in order to divert “pain attention.” There is no question that Saddam is […]
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Officer down, citizen dead
Even after years of Fox TV’s Cops, an amateur video shot during an incident at a Wegmans supermarket can make an impression. The video records less than two minutes of an arrest at the market August 31. It shows Rochester Police Department officers pinning Lawrence Rogers, a northeast Rochester resident who was clad only […]
