The Rochester Police Accountability Board is proposing a $5 million budget for the next fiscal year so it can hire more than 50 employees to investigate complaints.
The plan, submitted to the city Wednesday, would require City Council approval and would take effect for the 2021-22 fiscal year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022).
In an 85-page budget proposal, the board outlined the creation of three new bureaus officer accountability, system change, and administration. It estimated it could investigate 480 complaints under this structure.
The proposal would drastically increase PAB funding. The PAB s budget is $396,200 for this current fiscal year, up from 40% from $282,900 in its first year. The PAB currently only has one full-time employee, executive director Conor Dwyer Reynolds. The board members are all volunteers. The new proposal would see the board hire 55 full-time employees.
Mayor fires police chief following Prude s death; David Lee Miller reports.
A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against people of color to fester and asks a court to force reforms.
The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of potentially hundreds, if not thousands of people it claims have been victimized by officers over the last three years, including while protesting last year in the wake of the revelation of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who lost consciousness and died after being pinned, naked, to the street by officers responding to a mental health call.
Apr 6, 2021
And the people of Rochester don’t want a police department.
They don’t want it changed, they don’t want it reformed, they want it gone.
You hear that every night on the 6 o’clock news, you see it daily in the streets, it is the undying demand of activists from far and near. The Rochester Police Department is actively hated by a loud and large percentage of the residents of Rochester.
I wish it were different. It doesn’t make sense to me. But it’s an undeniable reality.
Rochester has chosen demagoguery over reason, prejudice over principle, chaos over order. It is a city run not by elected officials – most of whom are feckless and incompetent anyway – but by a network of reporters and activists, preachers and hucksters, tenured professors and aspiring revolutionaries.
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GENEVA, N.Y. (WHEC) There will be a vote on Geneva s Police Review Board, it just won t include the public.
That s according to a new report by t
he Finger Lakes Times, which reports the city clerk found the local law creating the PRB is not subject to the vote, which, in political terms, is referred to as a referendum.
As we previously reported, the board can investigate complaints against the city s police department. Much like the Police Accountability Board in Rochester, Geneva s review board will be allowed to investigate and make recommendations, but the final decision will come from the police chief.
Federal lawsuit alleges brutality by Rochester police
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
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A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester and asks a court to force reforms.
The civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of potentially “hundreds, if not thousands” of people it claims have been victimized by officers over the last three years, including while protesting last year in the wake of the revelation of the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who lost consciousness and died after being pinned, naked, to the street by officers responding to a mental health call.