damn blacks!!!!!!!! before i moved from there they were coming across the bridge, attacking us and stealing our bikes. one even choked me and picked me up off the ground by my neck and when he went to get on my bike i went and pounded him good in the face and he took off running like a little pussy!!!

Chief Moore is correct in stating the citizens need to step up. By getting involved in your area, observing bad activity, calling 911 concerning criminal activity, snitching is really OK, not tolerating bad and ill responsible neighbors is just a start. This will not change anything in Maplewood area or any other area under the arm of crime. Blight has to increase in area as does the population that supports urban blight. How convenient and accessible living in the city is but how unsafe it can be equally.

The issue of Maplewood started YEARS ago, back when the neighborhood was still nice and no-one thought anything was wrong. Once the fundamentals/economics of a stable home vanish (generally happens incrementally), then the neighborhood incrementally becomes undesirable. So now your at the tipping point and have a meeting and news story or two. Unfortunately as so many pointed out this will not do ANYTHING but provide a placebo to the good people that still live there. My advice to those that can get out, do it NOW while your property is still worth anything. For officials that may actually want to take this on and do it right you need STABLE GOOD JOBS to promote good values and to build the neighborhood back one household at a time. The certain bandaids of police presence, town meetings, and marches are nothing but short term grand standing. I implore the public to realize this will do nothing for them but advertise there are issues around them. Rochester needs JOBS to restore any semblance of a good community.

No one has pointed it out but the magority of kids being killed are black yet look at the majority of people that attended the meeting, white middle age to seniors. That is the fundamental PROBLEM where are the black families that are loosing their kids to the street violence? The black community needs to want it as bad as the others.

I don't understand how an area that was once so beautiful has turned into a freakin' Shalonda-thon of human depravity...? Even Seneca Parkway, which still has some amazing homes, is like a pearl in a pile of poo - who is going to buy these homes now? You don't see this happening to East Avenue - I don't get it!

Unarmed citizens on those streets at night? Isn't that a recipie for disaster? Give them a radio to call in their own murder. why should the citizens have to do the job that they are already paying the police to do?

Mary Lou Frank recalled hearing the shots from 1 block away and they only consider the area at a "tipping point"? Call me a coward I guess. If I were sitting in my home and heard gun shots, I'd have Sam Morreale slamming a sign on my front lawn before the cops even arrived at the scene.

Why is the RPD always "beefs up patrols" after a murder? Maybe if they had more offers patroling all the time they wouldn't be running around trying to put out fires

good luck with that.

Oiy vay.