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Embroiled in scandal, Mayor Lovely Warren faces a tough battle against City Councilmember Malik Evans in the mayoral race. Mayor Lovely Warren stood at the podium outside her office at City Hall facing what would have been a circular firing squad of reporters had she given them a chance to pull the trigger. There were plenty of questions. Her husband, Timothy Granison, had been arraigned on drug and weapons charges earlier in the day. Prosecutors alleged he was a player in a cocai...

PHOTO BY GINO FANELLI Mayor Lovely Warren introduced her 2021-22 budget on Friday, May 14. Mayor Lovely Warren on Friday unveiled a budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that she called "historic" and would cut funding for the Rochester Police Department, expand the citys crisis intervention services, and provide the new Police Accountability Board with th...

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle A group of lawmakers, Rochester activists and mental health professionals are proposing "Daniels Law," a bill that, if passed, would amend public health law in New York state, establishing mental health response units that are trained to deescalate mental health and substance abuse emergency situations. Those units would allow mental health professionals to respond to mental health and substance abuse emergencies, instead of armed police officers. In addition...

Mayor Warren Presents RPD Reform Draft By Jonathan Hunter and Spectrum News Staff Rochester UPDATED 10:56 PM ET Feb. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:42 PM ET Feb. 04, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:42 PM EST Feb. 04, 2021 SHARE ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Mayor Lovel...

Police converge on City Hall on Sept. 16, 2020, in response to demonstrators "occupying" the exterior of the building. The Rochester Police Accountability Board announced Tuesday that it is launching its first formal investigation, targeting the Rochester Police Department’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests of last year. The board is looking to evaluate RPD’s current policy on crowd control and how force was utilized in the protests, as well as past crowd control effort...

Max Schulte / CITY / WXXI The Rochester Police Accountability Board announced Tuesday that it is launching its first formal investigation, targeting the Rochester Police Department’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests of last year. The board is looking to evaluate RPD’s current policy on crowd control and how force was utilized in the protests, as well as past crowd control efforts at events like the Puerto Rican Festival. Board members anticipated conducting interviews and revie...

Banning the use of tear gas and “drastically expanding” funding for alternatives to police response are among the initiatives being called for by the Rochester Police Accountability Board in a wide-ranging policy document expected to help guide police reform. The document was drafted in response to questions on policing posed by a City Hall working group tasked with coming up with recommendations to reform policing. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has mandated that every municipality in the ...