Tea and Vitriol

Rochester, New York is a deadly violent city. No matter how much city government tries to spin it, no matter how much the city administration pays for public relations' puff pieces to tout the benefits of city living, no matter how much Democratic elected cop-hating officials tell us to believe them and not our lying eyes and ears, it remains a dangerous place to live, work and play. True, the number of homicides fluctuate here annually, and there are plenty of violent incidents that might not result in immediate deaths, but that doesn't change the fact that Rochester has become a frightening place in which to travel. Until this past Sunday, Rochester had only one homicide for month, which the powers that be touted as an improvement in our crime statistics. Until Sunday. Since then, there have been three homicides in our fair city, two in the last twenty-four hours.  Those two incidents involved shooting to death people driving their vehicles. And, of course, they occurred in w...

  Yesterday, February 23, 2023, within the space of one hour, three teenagers were shot in the dying City of Rochester, New York. All three were shot in what has become known as the "Fatal Crescent," that section of our fair city in which most of our violence and homicides occur. The Crescent corresponds roughly to Rochester's ghettoes. The shootings occurred at different locations within the Crescent. One was pronounced dead at the scene.  He was Rochester's ninth homicide victim 0f 2023. Another of the three was taken to the hospital and into surgery with life-threatening injuries. The victim of the first shooting was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Thank heavens for small mercies, anyway. There is an old saying, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." A "rod," in criminal parlance, also means a pistol. And young people are somehow getting hold of lots of rods these days, always illegally. Therefore, they are not getting sp...