People should and NEED to be able to trust police. A few months ago I was arrested at the corner of GOODMAN for DUI. i would like to add that i was found NOT GUILTY ( for the record, I was found to be DUI of my prescription medications... It took months, and thousands of dollars ( that I do not even have, since I am on disability). In reference to the people who think these lawsuits are frivolous. I would like it to be noted, I used to feel the same way. BUT when it comes t law enforcement, THEY MUST be held to standards, ones that are higher than the average person. Keeping in mind that I was found not guilty. I too shall soon be taking the city of Rochester to court. Aside from illegally searching my vehicle, they removed my narcotic prescription bottles, and fora finale, when transporting my vehicle, they purposely snapped the transmission. Actions like these must be made to be acted upon. i have always been able to deal with homophobic people. They have never concerned me, to each his own.. I have always said... But when their actions are this malicious, something must be done. Let me finish bye saying, if there is an attorney i Rochester that would like to discuss this case please call me. I will be pursuing the matter. joe marchione 315-289-5060

People should and NEED to be able to trust police. A few months ago I was arrested at the corner of GOODMAN for DUI. i would like to add that i was found NOT GUILTY ( for the record, I was found to be DUI of my prescription medications... It took months, and thousands of dollars ( that I do not even have, since I am on disability). In reference to the people who think these lawsuits are frivolous. I would like it to be noted, I used to feel the same way. BUT when it comes t law enforcement, THEY MUST be held to standards, ones that are higher than the average person. Keeping in mind that I was found not guilty. I too shall soon be taking the city of Rochester to court. Aside from illegally searching my vehicle, they removed my narcotic prescription bottles, and fora finale, when transporting my vehicle, they purposely snapped the transmission. Actions like these must be made to be acted upon. i have always been able to deal with homophobic people. They have never concerned me, to each his own.. I have always said... But when their actions are this malicious, something must be done. Let me finish bye saying, if there is an attorney i Rochester that would like to discuss this case please call me. I will be pursuing the matter. joe marchione 315-289-5060

Having gone bar-hopping in my early 20's with gay friends (many years ago I may add), at 2 a.m. some people are out to cause trouble. My friends and I avoided these people and stayed out of the fray, but I saw my share of people that were just looking for trouble even then. To the 'five', grow up and get sober. Just because someone says something, anything to you, does not mean that you have to respond. Keep walking like nothing was said, they go away! And as for lawsuits, well, usually only the monied win these kinds of cases, cause they can afford a good litigation atty. Too bad the police had to even get involved because of some spoiled bratty queens that were spoiling for a fight in the first place! There or not, I can figure the type, it's part of the growth pattern.

The Police NEVER do WRONG, not even the RPD.

I can only wonder why the City is mad about the release of this highly secret "court sealed" document. Maybe because it shows what a bumbling bunch of oafs that Duffy's police brass and their cronies are. RPD's internal affairs bureau aka PSS is not in place to conduct impartial investigations with real results. It is a sham, a show, smoke and mirrors, much to do about nothing much like everything else in the Duffy administration. PSS is in place to take complaints from drug dealers against hard working cops while our Mayor claims the gloves are off and we mean business. The supervisors assigned to that unit are not there because of their investigative prowess. In fact they are usually there as a result of their desire to work days, Monday through Friday, and get a take home car. They want to advance their careers in the quickest and easiest of ways which is to show Duffy and his cronies that they are willing to do whatever it takes, no matter how wrong or immoral, no matter whose career or life they destroy to prove their loyalty. It's all politics and nothing more. A natural consequence of this 3 ring nonsense is a police department that is dysfunctional, suffering from an absolute lack of morale and barely effective. There is a leadership vacuum in the in the RPD and I truly feel sorry for all of the hard working cops that somehow keep a lid on a city that desperately needs real leadership and not disingenuous, ladder climbing grandstanding on the part of it's public officials. The cops accomplish amazing things not as result of but rather in spite of the current set of so called leaders. Shame on Duffy and his puppet, "Dave I'm not really in charge Moore", for attempting to assassinate hard working cops for their own political gain. The gay community should be outraged but not at the cops. They should be sickened that City leaders would use them in such a dishonest and deceptive way.

Its not surprising to me...wrong yes but not surprising. A culture has been bred where, before someone with a command position in the department makes a decision, they have to see in which direction the wind prevails. In this case the Mayor and the chief provided those winds. Its interesting to me that the Mayor was much quicker to condemn these officers than he was to condemn the actions of the former Governor. I guess the determination to condemn or not for the Mayor was based upon political expediency in both cases.

I find it disturbing that over a dozen police officers responded to this incident and it was the plaintiffs of the ridiculous law suit filed against some of the responding police officers that became belligerent and ended up arrested, and then tried to relay on the Gay community to bail them out. All you have to due is remember this is a country of laws, and I, for one do not care what side of the fence you fall on (homosexual or heterosexual). The group of people arrested not only were belligerent, breaking the peace, but exhibited raucous conduct which resulted in one of the police officers being injured and then being placed on a temporary disability because of these injuries. I believe that the convictions of the two, and real possible convictions of the rest of the group that were arrested, should receive much stiffer monetary fines as well as incarcerations. A real waste of good manpower and tax-payers money was spent on this unruly group of individuals. Wake UP Rochester!

This report shows the true colors of our city's "wonderful " Mayor Duffy and his puppet of a police chief, David Moore. Duffy still controls what goes on in the police department and is so concerned with not upsetting city residents, that he will say and do anything to appease them. In this sitation, the brass of RPD did rush to judgement and took the word of these "victims" before their own officers. PSS is a crockpot full of officers who will do anything to move up in the department. They are guilty of interfering with this investigation and of destroying the careers of 4 officers. I used to wonder how they slept at night, but now I realize that those without a conscience probably sleep fine. It's the ones who are innocent, who did their jobs, yet are being falsely accused that can't sleep. Where is the credibility in a department that suspends 4 officers for doing thier job? Contradiction runs rampant in RPD. When this happened, officers were punished and reputations destroyed , but when a well-known activist was murdered in the city, the department began its "Zero Tolerance" inititive. All of a sudden, officers were told to do whatever was necessary to stop potential criminals on the street. Were they to believe that they NOW had the backing of their chief and the Mayor? I think not. Ask any officer who is not in Duffy's back pocket how they feel and I guarantee you will not be surprised.