DeCarolis, Ereg, & Sanguedolce take out full-page ad against PAB, Democrat & Chronicle, March 10, 1963
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Below is a scanned image of a full-page Democrat & Chronicle newspaper advertisement paid for by DeCarolis Trucking and Rental Co., Inc. President Louis J. DeCarolis, Peter V. Ereg, and Russell B. Sanguedolce against the Police Advisory Board, and published on March 10, 1963, just days before the March 12 Rochester City Council meeting where the PAB might have been legislated into law. It was made law on March 26, 1963. The clipping can be found at the Local History Department of the Monroe County Library Downtown Branch. This full page advertisement was published in the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper on March 10, 1963.
While the Police Advisory Board became law in 1963 to address complaints against officers who complainants said used "excessive and unnecessary force" against them, the Locust Club police union did everything in its power to thwart it from actually accomplishing anything. Two federal injunctions were slapped on it by the court preventing it from conducting investigations and forwarding recommendations to the chief of police--it's primary functions. By the mid-1960s, new appointments to the board were needed to meet quorum in order for it to do its work. But neither Democrats nor Republicans appointed anyone to the board after it was found constitutional by the courts in 1969. It was then defunded and abolished in 1970 by the new Republican Party-lead Rochester city government.
