Rochester Police Chief Mike Ciminelli said last week that the plan to take the RPD from an east-west model to a quadrant-based model should be ready by May. And then it will take a year or more to complete the transition, he said. Ciminelli briefly outlined his vision for the police department at a meeting […]
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Fights: Vargas’s latest challenge
The last few weeks have seen Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas dealing with one troubling incident after another. First, there was the vote of no confidence against him by the Association of Supervisors and Administrators, the union that represents school administrators. That was followed by an envelope sent to the Democrat and Chronicle containing personal […]
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City of the gun
An ATF agent gives a depressing account of guns in Rochester.
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Feedback 1/22
Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. For our print edition, we select comments from all three sources, and we edit selections for publication in print. Do police target young black males? My 15-year-old son attends an all-young-men charter school within the city. […]
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Policing the police
The most tangible thing to come out of the review of the way complaints against the police are handled was the addition of a community advocate to the Civilian Review Board. The advocate’s purpose is to help people through a process that can be emotional, complicated, and lengthy. Members of City Council got a one-year […]
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Feedback 12/25
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Cops and the Edison 3
Rochester’s next police chief, expected to be named later this month, will walk into an extraordinarily tough job: fighting crime and improving police-community relations. At the same time. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve gotten vivid examples of how hard that will be. There’ve been almost daily reports of shootings, fights, and stabbings. Reining […]
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Who is the face of public safety in Rochester at this moment?
UPDATE, DEC. 3: Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley has dropped the charges against the three young men arrested while waiting for a bus last week. Doorley released the following brief statement: “After reviewing the facts associated with these arrests, I have decided to dismiss the charges in the interest of justice.” ORIGINAL BLOG: I know […]
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Warren appoints two to lead her transition team
Rochester Mayor-elect Lovely Warren has appointed a local lawyer and an RIT professor to lead her transition. Christopher Thomas and Dr. dt ogilvie are serving on a volunteer basis. The transition team will also hire Strategic Community Intervention LLC, founded by former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson, to consult. Current mayor Tom Richards will be a […]
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South Wedge crime fighters
Some residents of Rochester’s South Wedge are forming an anti-crime group to address what they say is poor police response and follow-through, as well as a failure by the local media to report the truth about crime in their neighborhood. “The people of the South Wedge are left with little recourse or remedy except to […]
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Meet your Greens
Our general-election coverage, including endorsements and an in-depth look at the Green Party of Monroe County.
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White wants a Rochester ‘for us, by us’
Alex White, the Green Party candidate for Rochester mayor, is fired up about Costco. But not in the way you think. Costco, a membership-only warehouse store, will be part of the CityGate development planned for the intersection of East Henrietta and Westfall roads. Costco received property tax abatements from the county’s industrial development agency worth […]
