[Buckeye McFrog]

I know a guy who has lived in Manhattan, L.A. and a half-dozen Third World cities who says the only time he’s been mugged was while attending school in Rochester.

[mass55th]

I grew up in Rochester in the 50's and 60's. Back then there was a saying: "If you want to get away with murder, go to Rochester."

I graduated high school in '65. Moved away in 1972, and mighty glad that I did with the way the place has changed. The city was never this way when I lived there. I went to a mixed race school. Our football and basketball teams had a large number of blacks. In fact, our starting basketball team had only one white guy on it. I never saw blacks and whites fight each other. Any violence that erupted was white on white, or black on black...and it was very rare.