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  • Did District Attorney Sandra Doorley Violate Ethics Guidelines While Attending a Local Republican Fundraiser?

    Posts and photos from a Republican Committee Fundraiser could be interpreted as Doorley violating ethics guidelines.

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    If activists received any coverage in Rochester from the mainstream press the last three decades, it was probably because of Jim Goodman.

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    A review of recent press coverage and social media puff regarding the Police Accountability Board

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Youth Sports Leagues, Personnel Files, and Journalistic Peddling of Copaganda

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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Behind Those Giant Messages at the Protests

Submitted by AlBrundage on Sat, 2020-09-19 23:51

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Singletary, La'Ron (2020 fired Chief of Police): personnel file; settlement

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Tue, 2020-09-15 22:01

This is fired, former chief of police La'Ron Singletary's personnel file and a civil settlement:

Police Chief La'Ron Singletary_Redacted.pdf

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Mazzeo, Michael; personnel file

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Tue, 2020-09-15 21:38

This is the personnel file on Michael Mazzeo of the Rochester Police Department:

Officer Michael Mazzeo_Redacted.pdf

PDF icon Officer Michael Mazzeo_Redacted.pdf
An interesting point about this file is that it starts AFTER he was acquitted of brutality and civil rights abuses and retrained. It is NOT his whole personnel file.

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Justice For Daniel Prude - 12th night (Sept 13)

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2020-09-15 19:34
  • For more info, see Free the People ROC: facebook.com/ftproc
  • This is already 2 nights old. Events are moving faster than we can cover them.
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Justice for Daniel Prude: Activists achieve major gains, push for more

Submitted by ben on Thu, 2020-09-10 16:54
There is an astonishing amount of activity surrounding Justice for Daniel Prude going on in Rochester right now.  I thought it could be nice to produce a summary of everything happening, since it can be overwhelming trying to track it all.  Please comment if this is useful, and we can do more regular summaries and updates.  Also if anyone is interested in joining in, or already doing similar work and wants to collaborate, please send me a message and let's talk.
 
Wednesday night marked the 8th straight evening of protests in response to the murder of Daniel Prude, which are part of over 15 weeks of sustained black lives matters demonstrations organized by Free the People Rochester.  The initial nights were marked with extreme aggression and violence from the police, including shooting pepper balls and tear gas into the crowd.  Starting Sunday night, the police backed off their attacks, which has allowed for peaceful demonstrations.
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Local Rally in support of US Postal Service

Submitted by Al Brundage on Mon, 2020-08-24 22:36

A crowd of about 45 people met on Saturday morning, August 22 2020 in front of the Metro Post Office on West Main Street to show their support for the US Postal Service. The event coincided with three others in Monroe County and over 800 nationwide.

Speaking was Jeremy Cooney, candidate for New York State Senate in district 56.

President Donald Trump's hand-picked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is accused of intentionally sabotaging the Postal Service to make it more difficult to cast ballots by mail in the upcoming election.

 

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'Agitators', Family Dollar, and a rip-off at half the price

Submitted by Robert Meek (photo: D&C) on Mon, 2020-08-03 14:27

On May 30th, Rochester joined the rest of the world in protesting racist police terror and murder imposed on Black People across the United States.  In response to the protest, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren decried the events stating that 'outsiders' had been responsible for the 'violence' that followed the 'peaceful' BLM event. Warren noted, "Outsiders – and I do mean outsiders – not from our city, not from our community, decided to set police cars on fire". She later clarified that "Outsiders. Outsiders of the Black Lives Matter movement. People that came to agitate and irritate were the ones that started the destruction, that set the police car on fire, and defaced our police station." Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle noted, "Warren personalized her remarks by talking about the destruction of the "Family Dollar that my cousin works at," and that her cousin no longer knows whether she will still have a job there."

Both the 'outsiders' who 'agitate,' and the Family Dollar remarks are problematic. The former is doublespeak, or an attempt to shuffle the meaning of words to shift the systemic failures of the state onto the community. By spouting the lie of blaming 'outsiders' for the violence, Mayor Warren attempts to invalidate the uprising by claiming that the riot was somehow an outside plot, rather than the oppressed demanding that their voices be heard against the racist and violent police. The latter reeks of ignorance of Family Dollar's role in the destruction of urban communities, given the daily hoarding and looting that Dollar Tree Stores Incorporated exhibits in its business endeavors throughout communities across the nation.

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Federal Consent Decree Ordering Racial Integration of RPD

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Tue, 2020-06-16 19:46

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Shooting Case Clearance in Rochester, NY Working Paper 2018-07

Submitted by Center for Public Safety Initiatives on Fri, 2020-06-12 09:55

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Importance of State Law in Police Reform

Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Mon, 2020-06-08 20:45

Importance of State Law in Police Reform

Saint Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 60, No. 363, 2016

Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-11

29 Pages Posted: 4 Aug 2016

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The Police Advisory Board and the CRB: an analysis

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Thu, 2020-06-04 18:21

[Please note that the author wrote this piece five years ago. Much has changed. And absolutely nothing has changed. #BLM This report is in no way definitive. Also, observe how the D&C wrote about a 2% sustain rate in October 1995.]

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Keyoni Adams tells her story of police violence

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Wed, 2020-05-27 17:36

On November 17, 2017, Keyoni Adams was arrested during a domestic dispute. This is her story detailing her experience of being abused and beaten by members of the Rochester Police Department and deputies in the Monroe County Jail. Please be advised that her story is graphic and disturbing.

She was released on November 20, 2017. Ms. Adams pleaded to a conditional discharge. Since then, she has been harassed by the Rochester Police Department.

This interview was conducted on March 28, 2018.

Enough is enough!

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Judge on gun case: no body-worn camera footage, no probable cause, case dismissed

Submitted by T. Forsyth (feature photo: Democrat & Chronicle) on Sun, 2020-01-19 22:55

A frustrated and angry Supreme Court Justice dismissed a gun-involved assault case when both officers on the scene could not produce body-worn camera footage of the moments preceding the arrest.

 

On July 24, 2019, around 6:30pm, Rochester Police Department (RPD) officers Michael Mortillaro and Jeremy Lindauer, II were driving down the 200 block of Weyle Street in Rochester, NY, which is a part of their beat, and observed “a group of five to six males sitting in law chairs on the front yard and on the sidewalk area,” according to a suppression hearing transcript from November 21, 2019. Based on their knowledge of the “area,” they believed “some sort of drug sales [were] going on at that time.”

 

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This year's RCSD budget crisis can be traced back to the absurd process that "balanced" last year's budget

Submitted by ben on Wed, 2019-12-18 21:07

The current budget crisis in the Rochester City School District (RCSD) is somewhat a mystery. We often hear that the school district overspent its budget by tens of millions of dollars, but rarely hear how this happened. Just how does the school district go from having a budget that was balanced on paper at the end of the 2018-2019 school year to being $30 million short at the start of of the next? One answer is the completely absurd process used to balance last year's 2018-2019 budget.

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It’s not over for Benny Warr

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Fri, 2019-07-26 00:58

 

A decision was rendered regarding motions filed at the conclusion of the Benny Warr civil trial against Rochester Police Department officers who assaulted Mr. Warr. United States Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson issued her decision on July 22 regarding the plaintiff’s motions to set aside the verdict, grant a new trial, and impose sanctions against the defense counsel, City of Rochester attorney Spencer Ash, for misconduct. The judge has not dismissed the motions meaning that they are still on the table. This is the first public communication from the judge since the end of Mr. Warr's civil trial.

 

Read the Decision and Order here:

warrpayson.pdf

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In her decision and order, Judge Payson specifies that the “application is premised on two grounds: first, that defendants’ counsel [Spencer Ash, the City of Rochester attorney representing the Rochester Police Department (RPD) and its officers] engaged in deliberate misconduct prejudicial to plaintiffs’ right to a fair trial; and, second that the jury’s verdict awarding no compensatory or punitive damages was inconsistent and against the weight of the evidence.” The seven-page document elucidates the issues raised in court papers pertaining to both points. The judge does acknowledge in her order and decision that such issues did arise during the trial, but without supporting documentation examining the entirety of the trial, she could not properly rule on the motions.

 

Therefore, she ordered the plaintiff’s attorney, Charles Burkwit, to “supplement their post-trial motion with an amended affidavit and memorandum of law supported by specific citations to the trial record and accompanied by the trial transcript.” Mr. Burkwit has until September 20 to file the appropriate supporting documentation.

 

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Critique of a Yellowish Piece of "Journalistic" - Trash

Submitted by Howard Eagle on Fri, 2019-07-05 18:43
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RPD officer Michael Sippel found guilty

Submitted by T. Forsyth on Tue, 2019-05-28 15:42

This morning, May 28, 2019, Judge Thomas Rainbow Morse found Rochester Police Department officer Michael Sippel "guilty of Assault in the Third Degree."

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Rochester Police Locust Club Strongly Opposes Legislation Proposing A Police Accountability Board! (March 15, 2019)

Submitted by R-IMC on Thu, 2019-05-23 22:27

Below is an email sent out by the Rochester Police Locust Club criticisizing the push for the passage of the Rochester Police Accountability Board. The email was sent on March 15, 2019.

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Press Release: The Police Accountability Board Alliance Strongly Opposes City Council’s Proposed Changes to the PAB Legislation (April 16, 2019)

Submitted by R-IMC on Thu, 2019-05-23 22:05

A press release for a press conference from the Police Accountability Board Alliance after being told by Council members that the legislation released in January would be amended.

 

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Highway Interdiction Team Drug Buy Locations Map (1988)
Re-Engineering Training On Police Use of Force (2015)
Guiding Principles on Use of Force (2016)
Rochester City Council Approval of $15,000 for Force Science Training (2017)
Letter to the Mayor, Rochester City Council, and the Chief of Police demanding that the Force Science Institute training be canceled (2017)
CDS's response to The Force Institute Training of RPD officers (2017)
Excited Delirium: What It Is, What It Isn't and How We Know by Dr. Christine Hall [PowerPoint] (2017)
Chris Hall slides & "Advanced Force Science Specialist" program info. (2017)
Force Science Institute Response to NYT article: Setting the Record Straight: Force Science and Lewinski (ca. 2015)
New York Times Attacks The Force Science Institute - A rebuttal (2015)
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Why Cops Are Told to Keep Quiet After a Shooting (2015)
Psychology professor William Lewinski under fire over ‘pseudoscience’ (2015)
International Association Assessing the Police Dept. (2017)
Locust Club of Rochester v. City of Rochester [1968]
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