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A REPORT FROM AMERICA'S MURDER CAPITAL (ROCHESTER, NY)
boblonsberry.com ^ | 11/15/21 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 11/15/2021 5:17:13 AM PST by shortstop

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To: usconservative

Chicago has 2.75 million people; Rochester has 211,000 people.


21 posted on 11/15/2021 6:08:01 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: shortstop

Sorry to say this city is like all other cities in the USA. Run by Democrats who don’t care about the people. Only POWER! I wanted to leave this area this year, but health issue arose. Preparing my home now to leave in 2022! Florida here I come!


22 posted on 11/15/2021 6:08:34 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: shortstop

BTTT


23 posted on 11/15/2021 6:14:44 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: shortstop

Rochester in the 1950s was a decent, if uninteresting city. What changed? (Rhetorical question)


24 posted on 11/15/2021 6:16:54 AM PST by I want the USA back (Kick the creepy, sleepy, drooling self-pooping methane blaster out of the Oval Office. )
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To: woodbutcher1963

“SO, why does the article call Rochester the murder capital if it is not per capita?”

Wait, are you looking for accuracy in reporting? Logic?

There is only propaganda...and when accuracy does occasionally occur, it is framed to support the propaganda message.


25 posted on 11/15/2021 6:19:59 AM PST by Geoffrey
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To: Geoffrey

It is a blog not media...I will self correct.

Who knows what time frame he is talking about, and I will give him leeway with his title...I enjoyed two of his articles that I read.


26 posted on 11/15/2021 6:23:48 AM PST by Geoffrey
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To: Sacajaweau

I live in the southeast ‘burbs. Very nice. Burbs to the east, south and west also nice. City itself it the $hithole. Ten or 15 years ago Rochester mayor ran for county exec. (Roch within Monroe county). Is plan was to combine city with surrounding’ burbs as “metro government”

He lost 4-1


27 posted on 11/15/2021 6:29:14 AM PST by wny ( )
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To: woodbutcher1963
SO, why does the article call Rochester the murder capital if it is not per capita?

Ask the reporter why they can't seem to get their facts straight. (Lord knows they can NEVER get their facts straight.)

Here's a clue though: hyperbolic headlines ALWAYS get eyes.

28 posted on 11/15/2021 6:33:02 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Labyrinthos
See post 17.
29 posted on 11/15/2021 6:33:43 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: shortstop

The Murder Capitals Of New York For 2021:

https://www.roadsnacks.net/these-are-the-10-murder-capitals-of-new-york/#:~:text=Detailed%20List%20Of%20The%20Places%20With%20The%20Most,%20%2012.63%20%2038%20more%20rows%20

Detailed List Of The Places With The Most Murder In New York For 2021

Rank City Murders Murders/100K
1 Buffalo, NY 47 18.38
2 Rochester, NY 33 16.04
3 Syracuse, NY 19 13.34
4 Hempstead Village, NY 7 12.63
5 Pleasantville Village, NY 3 41.32
6 Utica, NY 6 10.03
7 Middletown, NY 3 10.79
8 Newburgh, NY 3 10.69
9 Poughkeepsie, NY 3 9.86
10 Tonawanda Town, NY 4 7.05
11 Cohoes, NY 2 11.96
12 New York, NY 319 3.81
13 Troy, NY 3 6.09
14 Kingston, NY 2 8.76
15 Albany, NY 4 4.11
16 Schenectady, NY 3 4.58
17 New Windsor Town, NY 2 7.15
18 Port Jervis, NY 1 11.73
19 Yonkers, NY 6 3.0
20 Poughkeepsie Town, NY 2 5.14
21 Amityville Village, NY 1 10.6
22 Binghamton, NY 2 4.5
23 Hamburg Town, NY 2 4.31
24 Niagara Falls, NY 2 4.18
25 Dunkirk, NY 1 8.54
26 Ulster Town, NY 1 7.92
27 Johnson City Village, NY 1 7.04
28 Beacon, NY 1 6.89
29 Amsterdam, NY 1 5.63
30 Ogden Town, NY 1 4.96
31 Mount Vernon, NY 2 2.96
32 Cheektowaga Town, NY 2 2.6
33 Amherst Town, NY 2 1.65
34 Ossining Village, NY 1 4.0
35 Elmira, NY 1 3.71
36 Port Chester Village, NY 1 3.41
37 Ithaca, NY 1 3.21
38 Rome, NY 1 3.12
39 Spring Valley Village, NY 1 3.09
40 Riverhead Town, NY 1 2.98
41 West Seneca Town, NY 1 2.2
42 Ramapo Town, NY 1 1.06


30 posted on 11/15/2021 6:36:15 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Sacajaweau

“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.”

Born in Rochester NY Dec 1949. John Marshall High School, the RKO Palace Theatre and the Paramount, Ontario Beach, Ice cream cones at Abbott’s Frozen Custard, (Carvel’s, Carrol’s Hamburgers 22 cents), Sea Breeze (The Jack Rabbit roller coaster), Don & Bob’s, Schaller’s, submarine races at Durand Eastman, riding the escalator at Sibley’s. Bus transfers for 2 cents. Shopping plazas, Northgate, Eastway, Westgate, and South Town. Hockey games and ice skating and rock concerts at The War Memorial. French’s Mustard #1 Mustard Street. Drag racing down Main Street. Drive In Movies (Lakeshore, Central, Rochester, Starlite). F.W. Woolworth Co. 5 and 10c Store. (and the lunch counter!)

Don’t miss the place or the times one bit! I left out all the BAD memories.


31 posted on 11/15/2021 6:40:29 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: usconservative

I just looked it up, and you’re right. So it seems like you did more research on this topic than the author of the article did. This kinda reduces Lonsberry‘s credibility, IMO.


32 posted on 11/15/2021 6:40:41 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: faucetman
Submarine races......LOL

As Bob Hope says....Thanks for the Memories.

33 posted on 11/15/2021 6:43:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: freeandfreezing

Those innocents who get killed do NOT get “protests” and rioting in the streets.

Happens all the time. Innocent little black children, shot in the crossfire - no rioting. (Not that I want riots, but you get the point.)


34 posted on 11/15/2021 6:49:09 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Leaning Right

As an angry native, he’s probably just venting hyperbole.


35 posted on 11/15/2021 6:51:02 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Leaning Right
It's not hard to find the facts, I did it in under 15 seconds doing a quick search.

All this proves is that so-called 'reporters' are lazy and they formulate their articles based on their own biases using hyperbolic headlines to get eyes.

The above description applies to at least 99.999% of the lying liberal lamestread media IMO, and has for the decades I've been paying attention to the lack of actual reporting of FACTS and calling the lying liberal lamestream media just that.

I'm also an old fart and learned long ago to never, ever trust the 'media' to tell the truth. They refuse to do it because they're all liberal/progressive propagandists pushing an agenda.

It's rare that a reporter actually simply reports the facts as known and leaves it up to us to discern the truth of the matter. (That statement is true of the left AND right leaning media.)

36 posted on 11/15/2021 6:51:08 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Labyrinthos

Um...why doesn’t the ranking seem to jibe with anything?


37 posted on 11/15/2021 6:52:42 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: shortstop

Rochester’s city center was frozen in time in about 1968, then taken over by bureaucratic welfare democrats. They proceeded to build welfare plantations (now refugee camps) on nearly all neighborhoods surrounding downtown.

Its one of the most depressing places in America.


38 posted on 11/15/2021 6:59:17 AM PST by PGR88
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To: JoJo354

Bolstered by author’s writing, which seems to escape him:

“And official Rochester seems fine with it. Inaction out of City Hall, big anti-cop wins on Election Day”

Acknowledges that ELECTIONS won this - yet calls it “official” as if only gov hacks condone it. Voters are not “official”, only the people THEY elected.

Needs to calm down a tad and edit, as the thought process here is not consistent.

But this is a constant issue we have to face - half our neighbors really ARE this vile, this evil in result if not manner. We need to put the blame where it is - “THE PEOPLE” - not just the overlords whom they vote in.


39 posted on 11/15/2021 6:59:45 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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Rank	Metro area	Violent crimes per 100,000 people, 2020	Total violent crimes, 2020	Murders per 100,000 people, 2020	Total murders, 2020
1	Memphis, TN	1,359	18,324	24.2	327
2	Monroe, LA	1,309	2,605	11.6	23
3	Anchorage, AK	1,171	3,576	5.9	18
4	Pine Bluff, AR	1,098	950	27.7	24
5	Detroit, MI	1,088	18,894	22.3	387
6	Danville, IL	1,050	785	17.4	13
7	Albany, GA	1,008	1,469	15.8	23
8	Albuquerque, NM	1,006	9,296	9.4	87
9	Alexandria, LA	968	1,464	14.5	22
10	Little Rock, AR	939	7,014	13.1	98
11	Lubbock, TX	919	2,985	9.5	31
12	Florence, SC	860	1,764	19.0	39
13	Fairbanks, AK	841	277	9.1	3
14	Sumter, SC	812	1,140	19.9	28
15	Saginaw, MI	795	1,501	17.5	33
16	Lake Charles, LA	789	1,663	9.0	19
17	Rockford, IL	771	2,566	10.8	36
18	Gainesville, FL	760	2,516	5.1	17
19	Corpus Christi, TX	738	3,176	10.0	43
20	Stockton, CA	723	5,517	11.0	84
21	Pueblo, CO	722	1,216	10.7	18
22	Macon, GA	708	1,624	19.2	44
23	Odessa, TX	697	1,180	11.2	19
24	Bakersfield, CA	692	6,216	12.9	116
25	Shreveport, LA	683	2,683	21.6	85
26	Milwaukee, WI	678	10,688	13.1	206
27	Amarillo, TX	673	1,787	6.8	18
28	Springfield, IL	667	1,369	5.8	12
29	Rapid City, SD	665	957	10.4	15
30	Niles, MI	664	1,013	5.2	8
31	Battle Creek, MI	664	886	10.5	14
32	Kalamazoo, MI	663	1,763	7.5	20
33	Farmington, NM	661	817	3.2	4
34	Jonesboro, AR	660	893	9.6	13
35	South Bend, IN	655	2,121	9.3	30
36	Houston, TX	632	45,368	9.2	662
37	Springfield, MO	632	2,993	5.5	26
38	Billings, MT	627	1,152	8.2	15
39	Jackson, TN	625	1,115	9.5	17
40	New Orleans, LA	624	7,960	21.7	277
41	Nashville, TN	616	12,137	7.7	152
42	Fort Smith, AR	615	1,541	4.4	11
43	Chattanooga, TN	613	3,487	7.9	45
44	Beaumont, TX	606	2,372	8.9	35
45	Kokomo, IN	604	498	9.7	8
46	Lawton, OK	603	759	12.7	16
47	Merced, CA	599	1,660	8.7	24
48	Fresno, CA	597	5,948	9.4	94
49	Tulsa, OK	591	5,947	9.3	94
50	Hot Springs, AR	583	582	9.0	9


40 posted on 11/15/2021 7:11:50 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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