This is the 1977 legislation that established the Complaint Investigation Committee and cemented a financial relationship between the Center for Dispute Settlement (then the Community Dispute Services) and the City of Rochester that was tasked with "administering and selecting the panelists" to sit with two command level Rochester Police Department officers and review police misconduct complaints. CDS was paid $75 per session not to exceed $5,000. See the attached PDF for more.
Below are selected sources describing the creation of the Police Advisory Board of 1963. The Fairwell case, the raid against Black Muslims case, and the White case pushed Rochester City Council to draft legislation that would establish Rochester's first police oversight mechanism: the Police Advisory Board.
Some newspaper clippings regarding the police brutality case of Rufus T. Fairwell. Articles are listed in a semi-chronological order. Some may be out of place.
Submitted by William Klare / Christopher Snyder on Tue, 2022-02-01 19:00
The pandemic has placed a heavy burden on poor and working people all over the world. The effects have been especially tough for those incarcerated here in the so-called United States. The following Narrative relates the experiences of an Incarcerated Individual from their incarcera the Fall of 2021. It offers a unique insight into the life of an incarcerated worker and I am sharing these words as an act of solidarity. For more information please contact me at iwocroc@gmail.com.
The Rochester Police Department shot and killed 28-year-old Mark Gaskill of Rochester early Friday morning. After the shooting, the RPD claimed that Gaskill was "brandishing" a handgun, but it's unclear what that means. Are they saying that he was he holding the gun or that a gun was visible in the car? An analysis of the BWC video seems to indicate that Gaskill was still holding his cell phone when the officers began yelling "gun"
Earlier this month, the NY state Attourney General's office released the transcripts of the grand jury trial investigating the death of Daniel Prude. While reading through them, I was reminded again and again of a Noam Chomsky quote: "In political discourse every term has two meanings: an official meaning and it's opposite and it's the opposite meaning that's normally used".
Submitted by Christopher Snyder on Mon, 2020-12-21 21:46
In the discourse of the libertarian left, there is a general aversion to what is called the "great man" theory of history, the interpretation of history in terms of the decisive actions of great leaders. You might say that there is an exception made for Kropotkin, the great white bearded Saint (as described by Oscar Wilde).
Born into privelege as the son of a minor landlord in Russia, Kropotkin would eventually assume the role of class traitor, moving over the course of a lifetime from the Tzar's court to the Tzar's prison.
Almost entirely based on Facebook posts, a protester who attended Justice for Daniel Prude events was charged with Federal rioting charges. The charges, which carry the potential of 5 years in prison and $250,000 in fines, are part of an effort to expand the use of the federal rioting act and limit freedom of speech protections.
Submitted by Robert Meek (photo: Democrat & Chronicle) on Thu, 2020-09-24 11:05
During a summer of citizens uprising against the racist Rochester Police Department, as well as against police departments across the world, Rochester's Democrat & Chronicle is demonstrating whose side they are on. On Aug. 22, Rochester's only daily circulated newspaper published a story by James Johnson on two youth sports organizations who reached out to, rather than turned their backs on, RPD officers.
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