I am a Rochestarian, if you are reading this, and never heard of Sibley dept store or saw their windows at Christmas time. If you dont remember Midtown Plaza , you never knew Rochester in the golden years. Like all rust belt cities Rochester will never comeback to the old days, it is over people. Low pay, no future jobs lead to high crime.

Now let's do rural towns with the most sex offenders

What to say here...? I was born in Rochester in the late 60's and Rochester is, has been, and always will be my favorite city. Rochester is deep in culture and history, many don't know or haven't researched the city's beginning, especially the 2nd great awakening in the early 1800's, Rochester used to be a religious city, crime was low, many just don't know the prominent early people of the city or it's wonderful beginning. Sadly in the early 80's, 1980, my family moved from Rochester to a little village to the southwest of the city. My father did not want my sister going to John Marshall High and I'm sure my brothers or I also. It seems as about then that people were moving out, looking for better lives, homes, and neighborhoods, that the city started to go down hill and has ever since. I think one of Rochester's biggest downfalls is the lack of work as businesses moved to the suburbs and people going with them, it left Rochester with a people with no sense or purpose. I think one of the biggest fixes for Rochester is to tear down some of the really old, non-historic, buildings and get companies back in with jobs to give people a sense and a purpose, that with returning to the early 1,800 roots and God would certainly about fix most of the cities problems. I'm sure the that the Rochester now is not the Rochester Samuel Rochester envisioned when it was first a village. To me government doesn't do enough but line their pockets and do as they would rather than really care about a people or a place. Rochester became the flower city after it was the flour city and was a beautiful city at one time, gardens such as Maplewood and such were kept to keep the city beautiful and draw interest, if only the money was used in the right places Rochester can be grown again, it just takes someone with good vision and a good head on their shoulders. My prayer is God will be once again invited into the city and all the world can see what can be done through Him.

I was born and raised here and it's going to get worse before it gets better

What a dump

Looks like Rochester is going back to the bad 1980s days,

I live here it’s worse than the video

Wouldn't it be great if the governor would work with the police to clean out the criminals and make it safe for the hardworking citizens!!

I was 716 way before 585!

Rochester New York may be a nice small city to visit-I will never want to live there!🤥

The City Of Rochester ..."A City In DECAY"

My first apartment was at the corner of East Main and Akron, right near where this video started.

Diversity is not our biggest strength🤷🏻‍♂️

I've been downtown to get a garbage plate or see an Amerks game. No fear.

Wrong ! I have lived in the city 59 years.Not a single thing has ever happened... Not to mention 90% of Rochester is suburban living.

the inner suburbs ( Gates, Greece etc. also have high crime rates )

What’s the numbers on break ins and property crime? Car vandalism and theft? Typically murders are among gangs and drugs-usually doesn’t affect innocent bystanders. But property crime and vandalism does affect the innocent quite a lot.

I knew my city was bad but wasn't aware it was this bad

Don’t go out and night

i love reading the comments and alot of the people probably hasn't been to Rochester NY I'm originally from Boston Massachusetts but i move here in 2016 and Rochester is changing alot specially the downtown area with all the construction going on

You need to tread carefully when talking about murder rates and the Clintons. I was relieved to realise you meant the area not the family.

Present for support

So certain neighborhoods have a propensity for violence.

What about Joseph Ave?

Things are going back to how they were in the 1990's before Mayor Johnson. He lowered the crime. Johnson began forming community with Empowerment Teams and Community Oriented Policing. He got people working with Rochester Works jobs program, as the criminals were illiterate and couldn't get jobs, but the core issue of the city school district wasn't fixed. The district ranks last among the state's five largest school districts with English proficiency of 11.4 percent, and 10.7 percent proficiency in math. Robert Duffy undid many of the changes he had introduced, doing his best to stamp out community, so it was only a matter of time before the crime rate shot up. Robert Duffy favorite bar was shot up and closed. But the shooters were donors to the republican party so the murder scene was cleaned of witnesses.

We get busy in Rochester 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

These statistics are very wrong, before floyed the average was around 50-85 homicides a year. Sometimes dropping as low as 40. Never have we had 15 a year, maybe in the 19 hundreds.

"Summer of Floyd", not the year of insurrection? Fascist much?!?!

Baton Rouge LA had freakin 130 homicides smh.

I'm about to move here in September. Is it really that bad? I'm a PhD student at UoR.

Your video gives mr motion sickness, i wish you wouldnt do this :(

Great im going there next month

🗣BROOKLYN!!💥💥💥💥

The mere fact that the 45th , president doesn’t even want to keep the Affordable Care Act for all of the people in Rochester N.Y. ….. people really need to do their homework 📚 before VOTING !!

Looks rough, just the state of those roads is a bad omen.

Wtf is mayor's height?😖

thank you, it is unsafe!

bro, this is my city i am from

Im from the east side of Rochester ny the beach wood area my name oG 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Democrat ran city

Jefferson Area Kinda miss it Monroe was Fun Back When I Was Yung

Clinton not dat bad

Yeah I'm from Rochester I was born and raised there as a matter of fact I'm on my way back there this morning hopefully they'll let me visit my School Monroe and Madison

This video is wack. You chose some google street view of a beat up area. I live here and have been really well traveled across America. We have huge lush parks of open grasslands and trees every couple of miles. Large areas of nightlife, some of the best colleges in America. This has led to a diversity that you couldn’t even imagine. We have a food culture here that covers every country casually in every neighborhood. Nobody really cares who or what you are as long as you are respectful. Of course we have a few no go zones, and the nightlife areas can get wild, but it’s not like most places these days. Sure it’s hood, but this is just pointing out the bad parts.

Yea, it fng sucks

No its not nothing wrong with it fool of crap 😅

Rochester I member for two things: 1) Former global headquarters for Eastman-Kodak. 2) Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who murdered his grandparents when he was a kid, and served minimal jail time--then became "The Genesee River Killer" who murdered 14 women. Love, David

Democrat run. Democrat city. Democrat state. I pray for the police it’s the citizens that vote these democrats in.

My parents are from Elmira NY and I just got done with a job in Utica NY. Both towns are Way better! I drove around Rochester when driving to Erie PA and back. Only time I got on the highway and paid the tolls. Got to ask- why are you driving around these slums? Well, stay safe out there!

Smug city

Black people thats what happend black people black people