Rochester Police Announce Rewards in Unsolved Homicide Cases therockofrochester.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from therockofrochester.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Changes at Rochester Police Department within the year following the death of George Floyd
KIMT News 3 met with Rochester Police Department s Chief Jim Franklin to discuss changes RPD has made over the last year. He explains there are five organizational pillars to managing law enforcement: people, policy, training, supervision, and discipline. He says RPD has made significant enhancements to each one.
Posted: May 25, 2021 2:57 PM
Posted By: Annalise Johnson
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Tuesday, May 25th marks one year since the death of George Floyd. The death sparked a national conversation about policing and a push for police reform. Since then, law enforcement departments across the country have made changes.
The visual art scene, however, lacked a center. Local artists were creating work that could compete in New York, but Texas galleries weren’t interested in showing contemporary art, and few buyers knew what to select to impress their friends. “It was just bluebonnet paintings,” remembers the artist Barry Buxkamper, who was an undergraduate student at UT when he first met Hickey. This was the void Hickey set out to fill.
The name “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” was a reference to a rather bleak story by Ernest Hemingway, who was one of the subjects of Hickey’s dissertation, and a literal description of what he wanted to create: a gallery with good art on the walls and good natural light. It was also an inside joke about what the gallery represented to him: the controlled burn of his previous life as an academic. “I coined the first axiom of ‘combat aesthetics,’ ” he later said. “Nothing can light up the place you are like a burning bridge behind you.”
We can change everything
Leaders of Rochester s Black community have been meeting with RPD. And they ve found that breaking down stereotypes goes both ways.
Written By:
Rochester In Color staff | 8:30 am, May 7, 2021 ×
Rochester Police Chief Jim Franklin speaks during a discussion on Barbershop and Social Services Barbershop Talk Facebook Live show Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Barbershop and Social Services in Rochester. Also on the show were Dakota County Sheriff s Office Deputy Leondo Henry, Rochester Police Capt. Jeff Stilwell, Nicole Andrews, a community member and mother, Tawonda Burks, who moderated the discussion, and Andre Crockett, owner and founder of Barbershop and Social Services. The show focused on policing in Rochester following the killing of Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black man, in Brooklyn Center. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)
×
Thank you for Reading.
Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
Please purchase a subscription to continue reading.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content.