The "Success" of Mayor Mahweak's "Anti-Violence Initiatives:" Rochester "Celebrated" Its 46th Homicide Last Night!
A sixteen-year-old boy was shot and killed on Pennsylvania Avenue in Rochester last night. He was our fair city's 46th homicide of the year. Less than 24 hours previously, a 68 year-old-man was stabbed to death at Rochester's "famous" homeless shelter, the House of Mercy, while another man there was also stabbed but not fatally. House of Mercy is a hop, skip and a jump away from where the Pennsylvania Avenue homicide occurred. In the ghetto. Less than three weeks ago, on July 21, Mahweak declared a "Gun Violence Emergency" for the City of Rochester, stating "I will use everything we have." Which really isn't much. And what took him so long? After all, he did put all of Rochester's failed anti-crime initiatives under mayoral control in January, and promptly put his cousin in charge of them, which accomplished nothing, except to make city residents raise their eyebrows. It sure as Hell didn't make Rochester any safer. Criminals were proba