Captain Murrah reported that Rochester-area homicides in 2024 totaled 47, slightly above a 10-year average of 43.2, and that there were 164 shootings in 2024 involving 205 victims, at the Rock Against Gun Violence Coalitions first meeting of 2025.

The figures, Murrah said, come from the open-data portal and an attached KPI spreadsheet he circulated by email to coalition staff. "Homicides year to date as of this morning on the open data portal were 47 for 2024. Our 10 year average is 43.2," he told attendees.

Why it matters: Coalition members said timely, disaggregated data are essential to target prevention and support services. Speakers pressed for more detail on arrestee demographics and gun trace timelines that were not in the immediate presentation.

Murrah gave December arrest details for criminal possession of a weapon (CPW) cases tied to Monroe County: 39 CPW arraignments; six individuals were held without bail (15 percent of the 39); 20 had cash or bail set, of which four had cash bail set at $5,000 or less; 11 were released with nonmonetary conditions; two cases lacked disposition data at the time he spoke. "11 people were released with nonmonetary conditions," Murrah said when asked.

He also summarized age ranges for arrestees in the data packet: the youngest was 16 and the oldest 68, with a concentration in the mid-to-late teens through the 20s, several in their 30s and a few in their 40s and 50s. Murrah said the DAs office supplied demographic breakdowns (age, race and ZIP code) and that the attachment to his email includes that detail.

Coalition members asked for additional analytics. Commissioner Jacqueline Griffin said she wanted socioeconomic context (family dynamics, poverty levels) to better shape interventions. Another attendee asked whether ATF short-time-to-crime data were available; Murrah said he did not have that information and suggested that would come from the ATF.

The captain repeatedly noted the email attachment and asked coalition staff to redistribute it to members who had not received it. No formal motions or votes occurred on the data presentation; members discussed using the figures to inform upcoming coalition projects and requests to city or county partners for further breakdowns.

The coalition agreed staff would re-send Murrahs KPI attachment and that members should review the spreadsheet for follow-up at the next meeting.