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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Why is there so much crime in Rochester?  [/quote]

Untrue trollery.  Rochester is actually a pretty safe metro area and city.

[i]How safe is Rochester, NY?
The metropolitan area's violent crime rate was lower than the national rate in 2020. Its rate of property crime was lower than the national rate.
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Rochester has a lower crime rate than similarly sized metro areas, such as Pittsburgh PA and Portland OR.[/i]
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/new-york/rochester/crime

As for the city of Rochester itself, the FBI puts its violent crime rate below that of most major midwestern cities (incl Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Kansas City MO, etc) and many southern and southwestern ones (Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Tucson), and roughly the same level as (much larger) LA and Dallas.

Which isn't to dismiss that there's crime in Rochester, like anywhere.  But it's dishonest to suggest it's particularly acute in Rochester when in fact the opposite is the case.
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I agree.  My kid is at UR, and they are just extra careful when heading off campus (yeah parties on the other side of river).  They know to go in groups of at least 3-4, and to call an uber/lyft if needed.  
The nearby area (19th ward) is for most people more just something most of the kids at UR are not used to going thru because they live a privileged lifestyle.  But I have another kid who attended a jesuit University in heart of a city (main road thru campus is THE main road in the city.  I got used to at least 1 twitter alert per week from their PD about attack, car jacking, robbery, shots fired, etc.  Even had a "shots fired 5 blocks from campus and bullet bounced off car and hit the 9 story dorm on campus and went thru a study area that my kid often studies in" (and there were kids in the room, thankfully nobody injured beyond the mental trauma).  Walked to see the house my kid lived in 1 block off campus on graduation day, and police were dealing with an attempted car jacking literally 20 ft from my kid's house, right next to where my kid parked their car for 2 years.  And then when walking to our car, heard shots fired about 3-4 blocks away at 4pm (middle of day).   It's gotten worse there during covid and this past year.  
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