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The Rochester Police Department, also known as the RPD, is the principal law enforcement agency of the City of Rochester, New York, reporting to the city mayor.It currently has approximately 852 officers and support staff, a budget of approximately $90 million, and covers an area of 37 square miles (96 km 2).
Steve Howe, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. December 27, 2023 at 3:01 AM. A man was shot and killed by a police officer Sunday morning in Rochester. Police said officers responded to Murray ...
The city police has been mired in scandal in the wake of the killing of Daniel Prude. Mayor Lovely Warren fired Rochester Police Department chief La'Ron Singletary on the Monday prior to the shooting, and he had been replaced by Mark Simmons. [4] On the day preceding the shooting, the city council authorized an investigation into Prude's death. [1]
On March 23, 2020, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old African-American man, died after being physically restrained by Rochester, New York police officers. Prude had been suffering from a mental health episode after ingesting PCP and left his brother's house in a disturbed and naked state. His brother called the police, which then led to the encounter ...
Todd Novick, standing on Murray Street near Lyell Avenue on the morning of Christmas Eve 2023, answering questions from a police officer. This screen capture is from department-provided body cam ...
Fatal shootings involving police increase in Rochester region. New York police officers killed 25 people last year, shooting all but one person; five of those deaths were in the Greater Rochester ...
2012 Webster shooting. In the early morning of December 24, 2012, William Spengler, a 62-year-old man living in West Webster, New York, a suburb of Rochester, deliberately set his home and vehicle on fire. He then perpetrated a mass shooting, firing upon first responders. Spengler killed two firefighters, and injured two more and a police ...
The Rochester Police Locust Club, the officers' union for the Rochester Police Department, issued a statement in response, contesting the characterization of the event.