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.
Chicago has 2.75 million people; Rochester has 211,000 people.
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!
BTTT
Rochester in the 1950s was a decent, if uninteresting city. What changed? (Rhetorical question)
“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.
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.
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
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.
The Murder Capitals Of New York For 2021:
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
“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.
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.
As Bob Hope says....Thanks for the Memories.
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.)
As an angry native, he’s probably just venting hyperbole.
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.)
Um...why doesn’t the ranking seem to jibe with anything?
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.
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.
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
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