WHECTV Created: June 09, 2021 12:41 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) $4.5 million dollars, that s how much Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren wants to cut from the Rochester Police Department s budget, and we now have a better idea of how that would work.
Warren said the city is working with RPD to retool the department to keep officers on the streets. She made it clear she does not want to see staffing affected by the cuts, especially in light of the uptick in violence and the number of retirements. We are only down two officers, Warren said. We are keeping and wanting to make sure that we keep the same level of police officers because we still believe that we have an issue as many cities across the country are having with violence.
Problem is, the agency currently helping citizens with those complaints notified the city on Friday that it wants to hand off that work at the end of June.
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 cocaine ring and police claimed to have found drugs on him and an unregistered handgun and a semi-automatic rifle in the Woodman Park house he shares with Warren and their 10-year-old daughter.