The possibility emerged after a rash of violent acts in and around middle and high schools since the school year began.
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Rochester Police to take a “holistic approach” to crime spike
RPD Chief Herriott alluded to a plan to work with judges and lobby for stiffer penalties for specific crimes.
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Grisly work
The relatively new field of forensic cleanup spares families a grim task.
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County legislator proposes gun storage law
Democratic County Legislator Ernest Flagler-Mitchell says that people have a responsibility to safely and securely store guns.
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Report: City school district needs anti-racism training
This article has been corrected. Mandatory and ongoing anti-racism training for all school personnel tops a list of recommendations from the Rochester Community Task Force. The training should begin with district leaders, the report says, and the task force should help pick who does the training. The task force, which is made up of about […]
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Frankel unveils anti-violence plan
Democratic county executive candidate Sandy Frankel’s proposals include a joint city-county anti-violence task force.
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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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“The Family”
The Mafia penetrates American life so deeply and fully that the organization provides the subject for both gangster films and comedies (mobedies?). Although the mob’s traditional business enterprises — robbery, drugs, prostitution, gambling, extortion, political corruption, etc., etc., usually accompanied by violence and bloodshed — hardly qualify as material for laughs, some writers and filmmakers […]
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“The Purge”
Like it or not, popular film, like other popular arts, often reflects important currents and significant truths appropriate to its time and place, providing a telling commentary on its cultural context. All those familiar summer blockbusters, for example, suggest some not entirely inspiring notions about the movie-going public’s demand for the constant bombardment of sound […]
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“The Hangover Part III”
The magical number of three helps account for the success of some of the important literary and cinematic trilogies — in literature, for example, the Oedipus cycle, Shakespeare’s history plays about Henry IV and V, Dumas’s volumes about the Three Musketeers, Dos Passos’s “U.S.A.,” Farrell’s Studs Lonigan novels. In the cinema, the most obvious are […]
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NEWS BLOG: Your spree-killing survival guide
The new millennium’s “duck and cover” is here except this time, the threat is within. The City of Houston has produced an unsettling six-minute videoon what to do if someone starts shooting in a public place. And, to my surprise, soiling yourself isn’t one of the steps. Neither is shooting back – so we know […]
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NEWS BLOG: Would armed civilians have stopped the Aurora carnage? Cop says no
Predictably, in the days following the Aurora, Colorado, tragedy, some gun enthusiasts have argued that if several theatergoers had been carrying concealed weapons that night, they could have limited the number of people killed and wounded. We heard the same suggestions after the Gabby Giffords shooting and after the Virginia Tech shooting. It was good […]
