In 2010 Forbes Magazine rated Rochester third in the top 10 places to raise a family.[2]
Rochester, New York's last Republican mayor was elected in 1973.
Rochester had at least 80 homicides in 2021. The previous record of 69 was set in 1991.
On July 18, 2021 Democrat mayor Lovely Warren and her husband Timothy Granison were both charged with criminal possession of a firearm, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and two counts of failure to secure firearms in a home. An unregistered handgun and semi-automatic rifle allegedly were found unsecured inside the couple’s home they share with their 10-year-old child, along with cocaine and $100,000 cash.[3]