Colin,
Didn’t know if you had heard about the murder of a (white) policeman here in Rochester last week by a black man. Daryl Pierson was just 32 years old and just returned to the job on Tuesday after rehabbing for several month from a workplace injury.
He leaves a wife, 4 year old son and and infant daughter. This was the first Rochester policeman killed on duty since 1959.The guy (black) who shot him was just out of prison and had jumped parole. This occurred in one of the many violent neighborhoods in the city of Rochester.
Turns out this guy had a long rap sheet which included armed robbery, for which the victim couldn’t understand why he wasn’t contacted to testify. Because of a plea bargain, the perp was out on the street and able to kill this policeman, rather than serving his rightful debt to society (see his interview here) : http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3551793.shtmlHere’s a link to the numerous newspaper articles on this terrible event: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/search/daryl%20pierson/What they didn’t say much about, but I saw it on the twitter feeds from the police scanner transmissions, was that at the time this occurred, there was a big crowd of residents gathering, no doubt to pounce on the cop who they suspected was brutalizing one of their own.
One local radio host said he must have missed the candle light vigil for the officer in that neighborhood (there was none) as there are numerous such vigils since there are many murders in this area of Rochester (mostly black on black).
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One officer killed sense 1959! I wonder how many so called perps have been killed in Rochester in that time? We will never know because police simply do not keep track of those numbers . that's the simple reason studies can't be done on the subject. Police don't want these numbers released to the public . if these numbers where to be released to the public the outcry would result in change and police surly don't want that. That would simply hold them accountable and we couldn't have that now could we?
ReplyDeleteHow is it possible that they do not track the number of people killed by cops? One would think that this should be a very easy thing to find out given the fact that an investigation is conducted on each killing.
ReplyDeleteWhen did this become a contest?
ReplyDeleteIts called the U.C.R. idiots it is tracked you can find the numbers you just have to be smart enough to know where to look. Maybe that G.E.D. you got at E.C.I. just is not working out for you.
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