Posted on 11/15/2021 5:17:13 AM PST by shortstop
For weeks, and probably months, teen-aged gangs have assumed and exercised tactical control of the streets of Rochester, executing people and terrorizing the community, all without effective opposition from law enforcement.
Seven people were murdered over three recent days, with three of those homicides coming after the imposition of a “state of emergency” by the city and state.
In one execution, a young man in a crowd of people outside the city’s busy bus station was shot point blank in the chest, in broad daylight, and was then stomped savagely and homicidally by two men, all under the watchful eye of a surveillance camera. In another pair of murders, two young men were chased down and shot dead as they frantically tried to flee through an apartment building. One was caught and killed in the stairwell between the first and second floors; the other met his end in a third-floor corridor.
With seven weeks left in the year, Rochester is already six homicides over its deadliest year ever, topping the mark set at the peak of the crack epidemic. At this point, the only hope is snow. Bad weather pushes victims and criminals off the streets, reducing the number of targets of opportunity, and making drive-by shootings harder.
Snow is the only hope because effective law-enforcement techniques have all been nixed by the cop-hating, race-baiting progressive politics that dominate the city and empower the politicians, activists and non-profits who preside over it. It is a perfectly woke mess, where the police chief, reacting to what is undeniably the nation’s highest murder rate, had to take pains to say the police response would be surgical and respectful.
No saturation patrols. No zero tolerance. No active engagement of loitering or menacing young men on street corners. Some few bad guys tracked down and arrested, and turned over to activist judges playing under catch-and-release rules. Residents chided for not cooperating with a police department the evening news shows is incapable of protecting them.
Some blather about “it will take a whole community approach” and a need for “more mental health services” and the police being “guardians, not warriors.” The same pointless prattle that clueless and disinterested politicians have regurgitated for years. More references to and more money for ineffective non-profits, the patronage cows of the city’s Democrat politicians. It’s not about evil, the TV camera records, it’s about a lack of jobs and recreation, and an amoral equivalency is asserted between someone in a grave and someone in a cell.
Which is all a bunch of crap.
And the odd implementation of a white supremacist’s fantasy.
How many wannabe Klansmen look at urban violence and mutter about being fine with letting black people kill each other. Ironically, that is exactly what Democrat policies do. Maybe it’s time to lift the hood and see who’s underneath.
Because the first step to protecting black civil rights is protecting black lives.
And Democrats don’t do that.
They don’t do it in Rochester, where Democrat officials have savaged and gutted the police department. And they don’t do it in Albany, where Democrat officials have passed laws making the state a gangster’s paradise. Bail is very rarely imposed, prosecution is almost impossibly difficult, sentences are short, and parole restrictions are unenforceable.
And this is the result.
Bloodshed in the streets and heartbreak in the homes. A genocide in black Rochester, ignored by a numb community now accustomed to the daily litany of ever-more heinous and heartless murders.
And official Rochester seems fine with it. Inaction out of City Hall, big anti-cop wins on Election Day, prohibitions on police presence by the school district. It’s not about the lives, it’s about the revolution, it’s about progressive orthodoxy and a narrative that enables and excuses criminal conduct.
Murderers aren’t evil, they are mentally ill. They are not society’s predators, they are society’s victims. One young man gets gunned down because another young man was deprived of needed services. It’s not the fault of the black man who pulled the trigger, it’s the fault of the white man who “made the rules.”
Black lives matter – if they are taken by a white cop. Under any other circumstance, there’s a lot of looking the other way. In Rochester, violence is not decried, it is exploited, for more face time on the evening news and more money for a pet non-profit. It’s an industry, and lost sons and fathers are just grist for the mill.
The reality is that Rochester hates its cops more than it loves its children. At least that's the case with the politicians and activists. It's more about beating back the police than it is protecting the children.
And this is what you get.
The deadliest city in America.
And our only hope is an early winter.
Because there is a war on the streets of Rochester, and Rochester isn’t fighting back.
I thought it was chicago....whadaya know.
Why the 'Proud Boys' and other extremist groups have a hold on Upstate New York
Born in Rochester c 1940. It went downhill in the 70’s. Had a great youth in a great school....Downtown, the Goodie Shop, the Palace Theatre, Ontario Beach, Sea Breeze and fishing in the Bay. Plenty to do.
That hardly makes Rochester "America's murder capital."
Chicago says Hold my beer 'n watch this ...
> That hardly makes Rochester “America’s murder capital.” <
I’m guessing Rochester has more murders per 1000 people than any other US city.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Democrats don't protect black lives in the womb. They don't protect black lives in the schools. They don't protect black lives in the streets. They don't protect black lives in the trap houses.
AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THE RACIST???
It's all a bunch of [long string of disgusting but nevertheless accurate expletives]
They voted for this. When I say that, I mean the majority voted for this, otherwise those who are making the rules wouldn’t be in their position to make the rules.
“Thank God I escaped in 1978.”
Thank God I escaped in 1980.
Come soon Lord Jesus!
I suspect there is some kind of gang war going on in Rochester. Hopefully it will end soon to spare the innocent who get caught in firefights, or injured or killed by stray bullets.
I BELIEVE they are basing it on the per capita murder rate. Murders in relation to the total population.
Chicago wins in total numbers.
That’s my assumption, too. He’s talking murder rate, not total murders. Funny that such a high murder rate is not a big deal in the national news media. Maybe they don’t want us to know?
To anyone not in New York State, anything in-state that isn’t New York City doesn’t exist.
Per Capita, Shitcago still beats Rochester.
It was a great city. Now not so much. Look where they built the soccer stadium. An unsafe place, but had to be built there or David Gantt would not support. Should have built out at Elmgrove. Oh well.
St. Louis, Missouri is #1.
Chicago, IL is #28.
Rochester, NY is #37.
Hmmm.... Snow. Another white solution to the black problem. Sounds pretty racist to me. ;o)
The NY State Police raided the home of Mayor Lovely Warren and her husband Timothy Granison in connection with a seven-month-long drug investigation after Granison was pulled over with a large quantity of cocaine in his possession. The State Police found more cocaine and $100,000 cash as well as an unregistered handgun in the house.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/rochester-mayor-lovely-warren-to-resign-after-accepting-plea-deal/
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2021/10/05/anti-gun-mayor-avoids-felony-gun-charge-thanks-to-plea-deal-n50582
SO, why does the article call Rochester the murder capital if it is not per capita?
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