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Against the Police Advisory Board, letter and article, Times-Union, July 1965

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Submitted by RIMC on Sun, 2015-05-24 22:53

The year 1965 had by far the most column space with regards to the Police Advisory Board in both the Democrat & Chronicle and the Times-Union newspapers. For 1965, articles critical of the PAB from the Times-Union have been combined into single Rochester Indymedia articles divided by month. This is July 1965. The clippings can be found at the Local History Department of the Monroe County Library Downtown Branch.

While the Police Advisory Board became law on March 26, 1963 to address complaints against officers who used "excessive and unnecessary force" against civilians, the Locust Club police union did everything in its power to thwart it from actually accomplishing anything. Two injunctions were slapped on it by the court preventing it from conducting independent 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.

The letter to the editor below, "'Time To Put End'," written by Mrs. Albert Gordon from the city, was published in the Times-Union on July 1, 1965. According to her opinion, the PAB has "made hoodlums more brazen." And because the board interferes with the jobs of police ("...protect the innocent and apprehend those who break the law.") it's "high time" to abolish it.

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Times-Union reporter Dick Woodworth wrote "Ex-N.Y. Police Boss Is Still Bristling." It was published on July 21, 1965. Former NYC Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy proclaimed that "there's no logic, no reason" for police advisory boards when it comes to "quasi-military" bodies like the police. "You can't have second guessing," he said.

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