HOLY DUNG

Schenectady CITY needs 5 police agencies and NY State police due to a riot involving 200 people tonight.   Becker St.

Guess my town taxes are paying for our town cops to leave the town unmanned to go to Schenectady city?

Yep, that's EXACTLY what consolidation will do.  The areas that are currently the towns will be left without police protection to send them all to the city areas.  

DV often says "do something" to improve the city.   YEP.   What is needed is for the mayor to STOP these tax exemptions to the dem political cronies, and start spending that money on essential services the NEIGHBORHOODS where the people live.

Wonder how much travel expens the city had to pay because the mayor REFUSES to order all city police to live IN the city (and pay taxes), and so there is a delay waiting for the CITY police to arrive in the city from their homes 30, 40 50 miles away, far far away from the city.

I turned my scanner on and heard only one call in the past 10 minutes.

folks I work with have stopped calling the police.....they 'deal with things' themselves.....

folks I work with have stopped calling the police.....they 'deal with things' themselves.....

Same street as the recent shooting

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Mayor McCarthy and his team are doing a great job in the city.  Keep up the good work.

Quoted from mikechristine1

Guess my town taxes are paying for our town cops to leave the town unmanned to go to Schenectady city?

there are break-in's all the time in ROTTENdam. Our family member said they went to the cvs at the 5 corners, and the manager there said that their cars are being broken into right in the parking lot!!!

I know it's not SCUMnectady county...........but Guilderland is having a string of break-in's there too!

So sad that this 'riot' began at a vigil for a man who was recently shot there last Friday.

Digusting...and totally vile that at gathering for peace and remembrance ends in violence...

Really don't think our officers in Schenectady have a chance. It's just too polluted here.

They've been feuding back and forth since this happened. It gives them a chance to feel very special or something. If anybody cared that much about dead friends, the police would have the murderer in custody already, wouldn't they?
There are still mostly decent people living over there. Those are the ones I feel bad for.

It appears they don't trust the police enough to bring them in on the details.

The killer will likely be dealt with outside the law.

They are probably fighting back and forth over whether the victims "deserved it". The police would just arrest the shooter, and the DA would try him, andthese people are not living under the rules of normal civilization as we know it. They would not think that was justice, depending on whose 'side' they were on. Notice courtroom behavior these days. The families and friends show up to get on tv, and to brawl with an audience. Very Jerry Springer-ish.

gang realted...this is the vengence they portray....sad but true.....need to step up the POLICE....if that's possible...

intergrate the city county sherriff and state police.....then the troops could be secured.

SCHENECTADY -- Two Schenectady men were arrested after a huge brawl broke out at a vigil for a man who was shot and killed on Friday night.
Schenectady Police arrested 17-year-old Christopher Perez and 20-year-old David Ramos around 9 p.m. on Wednesday night.
Investigators say both men were attending the vigil for 24-year-old Jose Torres who was gunned down at a family party on Friday night. The shooting, according to Schenectady Police, was not random. Torres older brother was also shot, but survived his injuries.
Police say during Wednesday's vigil they received 911 calls of shots being fired in the area where the vigil was taking place, near the 1600 block area of Becker Street.
When officers arrived, over 200 people had spilled into the roadway and were blocked Becker Street. Several area police agencies had to be called in for crowd control and for the fights that were breaking out.
Perez and Ramos were arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Perez was also arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana.
Schenectady Police have not released anymore information about the shooting death of Torres.

The fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man at a home in the city's Central State Street neighborhood last week appears to have been the result of a love triangle, according to people with knowledge of the murder investigation.

The individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is active, said the suspected killer became romantically involved with Luis Gomez's girlfriend while Gomez was locked up on drug charges at the county jail.

Gomez, nicknamed "Luciano" or "Lil Louie," was released last Fridayafter serving nearly eight months for a misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to jail records.

Gomez confronted his rival and a fight ensued. Gomez's younger brother, Jose "Mikey" Torres, also was involved in the fight. It is unclear where that altercation took place.

Gomez, 31, and 24-year-old Torres were shot at 1633 Becker St., allegedly by Gomez's romantic rival, at a family barbecue where children were present, police said.

The gunman fired at least three shots at close range at the brothers shortly before 9:45 p.m. last Friday, authorities said. Torres later died of his wounds.

On Wednesday, the funeral for Torres was held at Daly Funeral Home on McClellan Street. A few hours after the funeral, a crowd that police estimated at more than 200 people, many of them dressed in camouflage gear, assembled, blocking the street near a growing makeshift memorial for Torres outside the Becker Street dwelling.

Police were called when shots were fired.

When the crowd became unruly, about 30 police officers moved in to chants of "war," "(expletive) the police" and the n-word, according to police. As a result, Christopher Perez, 17, and David Ramos, 20, both of Schenectady, were arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Perez was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana.

The family, through the funeral home, declined comment Thursday.

Quoted from rpforpres

a crowd that police estimated at more than 200 people, many of them dressed in camouflage gear, assembled, blocking the street near a growing makeshift memorial for Torres outside the Becker Street dwelling.

Police were called when shots were fired.

Who was it that said Schenectady was not a warzone, oh yeah the Schenectady cop who used to post here