EVENTS: JULY 4 CELEBRATIONS, FIRST FRIDAY 23 DINING REVIEW: SINBAD’S MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 13 THEATER: STRATFORD FESTIVAL PREVIEW 26 FILM: “TREE OF LIFE,” “BAD TEACHER” 32 URBAN JOURNAL: POLITICS AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY
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Skrillex • Bootsy Collins • CAROLINE COUNTY • Accordion Babes • RPO: “Red, White, and Boom!” • grace potter • and more music, page 14
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 40 No 42
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News. Music. Life.
It’s horrendous and sickening. I hate that part.” MUSIC INTERVIEW, PAGE 16
FINALLY! Marriage equality in NYS. NEWS, PAGE 6
City Council races shaping up. NEWS, PAGE 7
Building a better defense. NEWS, PAGE 8
Examining a temporary, hidden city. ART REVIEW, PAGE 22
Get to know Glimmerglass Festival 2011. CLASSICAL PREVIEW, PAGE 20
COVER STORY | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN | PAGE 10 | PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK
Baby blues: Rochester’s young police force Rochester Police Chief Jim Sheppard calls rookies “young bloods” — and there are a lot of them. Fortyfour percent of Rochester’s police officers have less than five years on the job. Sheppard says it’s a natural cycle, given that officers can retire after 20 years. But police union President Mike Mazzeo says officers might stick around longer if there were more career-development opportunities. The consequences of a force full of less-experienced cops are significant. Generally, newer officers are wellsuited to the physical demands of the job, Sheppard says, but they lack maturity.
Neighborhood leader Eugenio Cotto says younger officers tend to have a more rigid, aggressive style that puts them in conflict with some residents. (This observation may be relevant to the case of activist Emily Good. Good was arrested in May while videotaping a young officer performing a traffic stop. The charge has been dismissed. The case has drawn national attention, with many people accusing the officer of acting overzealously. Police are investigating the incident.) Pictured: RPD rookie Jon Laureano.