Incident 429: Unreliable ShotSpotter Audio Convicted Black Rochester Man of Shooting Police
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For Rochester police, the gunfire detection system known as ShotSpotter has been a valuable tool, alerting them to possible shootings and speeding up the police response time.
But, more than that, the system — which tries to locate gunfire …

In a courtroom full of blue, with dozens of uniformed Rochester police officers watching, a judge Thursday reversed the criminal conviction of a man once accused of attempting to murder a city police officer.
County Court Judge Christopher …

By the time Officer Joseph Ferrigno shot a Black man from behind, court records show, the Rochester cop had drawn at least 23 misconduct complaints in nearly nine years on the force.
One came from a woman who said Ferrigno, a burly hockey p…

ROCHESTER, NY — The man who was shot by a Rochester police officer in 2016 in what police alleged was a gunfire exchange, is now the subject of a three-part investigative series.
Reuters published a three-part narrative on the April 2016 sh…