Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-10-24 21:56
From the "Abstract" of The Case for an Independent Police Accountability System: Transforming the Civilian Review Process in Rochester, New York (Feb. 2017):
Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Tue, 2017-10-24 15:13
From the "Forward" of the Final Report of the Citizen's Committee on Police Affairs (1976):
This is the Report of the Citizens Committee on Police Affairs. It is the product of the work of fifteen persons appointed by the Honorable Thomas P. Ryan, Jr., Mayor of the City of Rochester, New York and the Rochester City Council.
The Committee was specifically charged to study and evaluate:
a. The policy and procedures of the Rochester Police Department in regard to responding to crisis calls;
Submitted by Rochester Indymedia on Sat, 2017-09-16 09:30
This is the Field Training and Evaluation Manual for the Rochester Police Department. The City of Rochester's Freedom Of Information Law department responded to Rochester Indymedia's request for this manual on November 9, 2016.
What if they gave an antiwar press conference and nobody came? Well, that's what happened July 22 2017. Local Antiwar groups International Action Center, United National Antiwar Coalition and Peace Action & Education released the following press release:
Five years ago, then-mayor Thomas Richards announced a grandiose project for the University of Rochester-Strong neighborhood. It was going to be an eco-friendly project with green spaces, a transit hub, a book store and most importantly for the neighborhood, a grocery store. Wegmans supermarkets had closed their store on the location several years prior.
June 22, 2017 the same day Republicans unveiled their secretly written plan to replace Obamacare, a group was waiting to greet it with opposition. Indivisible, a group formed to explicitly oppose the Trump agenda was organizing an orderly visit to the local office of Senator Charles Schumer (D)NY to encourage and support his opposition to the Republican Act. About 25 people were present on notice of only a few hours.
Submitted by Anthony J. Plonczynski-Figueroa, Leader of the 21st LD and Vice-Chair of Sheppard for Mayor on Mon, 2017-04-03 12:55
This is a response from Anthony J. Plonczynski-Figueroa, leader of the 21st LD and Vice-Chair of Sheppard for Mayor, to our feature The Reinvention of Jim Sheppard and the Rise of the New Jim Crow. Neither piece should be read as a Rochester Indymedia endorsement of either campaign. -Ed.
Submitted by SusanGalloway on Fri, 2017-03-24 15:40
On Thursday evening, two women and 5 children were stopped by Genesseo police for a minor traffic violation. The police, rather than handle the traffic violation as a what it was, called Border Patrol. The women and children were detained for 3 hours at the side of the road. The children and mothers were separated including a 2 month old US citizen, who was denied nutrition because of separation. The mother wanted to leave the children who are US citizens with the pastor, but the border patrol took the children into custody despite the mothers’ requests.
Submitted by Tianna Mañón, Nilan Lovelace, Michele Ashlee, Vanessa J. Cheeks, Photos by: Michele Ashlee on Thu, 2017-02-02 10:34
Rochester Indymedia and Open Mic are going to be cross posting and collaborating in the coming months on various stories. This is one of the first pieces to be cross posted. We're excited to be working with Open Mic! Check out the original article here: http://www.openmicroc.com/exploring-mayor-lovely-warrens-time-in-office/
Mayor Lovely Warren discusses her time in office. Credit: Michele Ashlee.
Sharing the background of many of Rochester’s black residents, Mayor Lovely Warren’s grandparents migrated north seeking better economic opportunities. And like many of our grandparents, hers didn’t find it either, settling instead for labor.
Graduating from the Rochester City School District, she went on to college, law school, then became a lawyer before working in the community and later leading City Council as the youngest to ever do so.
And then that granddaughter of migrators, sharecroppers, laborers, became Rochester’s first black female mayor.
“If you look at the history of our city we’ve had periods of challenges. And we didn’t look at those and cower down.” -Warren
Mayor Lovely Warren took office in January 2014. However, it hasn’t been an easy three years. In fact, the first year of her term saw a number of scathing reports and criticism from the community. She created security positions in her office, claiming she was being threatened, and then gave them to family members. She was constantly criticized for her handling of the press and many were worried that she wasn’t as good of a pick for Rochester as they’d first hoped.
Going into 2017, Warren hasn’t announced yet if she’ll campaign for re-election. Already James Sheppard, County Legislator for the 23rd District, has announced his campaign for her seat and Rachel Barnhart who recently lost a bid for the State Assembly against Rep. Harry Bronson is toying with a mayoral run as well. Both have charged that Warren has made no change, prompting OM to look at Warren’s time in office.
We looked at four pillars as we examined her “legacy:” development, social justice, violence and crime, and putting Rochester on the map.
For the second time in a week Washington Square Park and the surrounding sidewalks were packed with people protesting President Trump's executive order to ban immigration from certain countries. The ban included seven predominantly Muslim countries among them Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia and Yemen. By "coincidence" it did not include other nations in the area where Trump has business interests. Photos below.
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