Rochester police report shows modest year-to-date homicide and gun-recovery figures; coalition presses for richer trace data

Captain Murrah presented monthly and year-to-date law-enforcement statistics to the coalition and described the limits of computer-generated report fields for injury severity.

Murrah said year-to-date figures include "5 homicides, 19 shooting victims from 17 different incidents." He listed last month's recoveries as 2 long guns, 21 handguns, 1 ghost gun and 1 handgun with a machine-gun conversion device, and summarized arrest results for weapons charges (37 arraignments this month with varying bail outcomes).

A coalition member asked that future reports separate crime-linked recoveries from noncrime recoveries; Murrah supplied a crime-gun subtotal during the meeting (to date: 64 crime handguns, 13 crime long guns, and 6 ghost guns) and said he would check whether conversion-device counts can be enumerated in future updates.

Separately, Willie Lightfoot reported progress on a gun-trace data report: the mayor's office met with Brady National and appeared willing to proceed, with the mayor's administration taking the lead and a tentative completion window of late this year to early next year.

Why it matters: More-detailed gun-trace data and clear separation of crime vs noncrime recoveries can help the coalition and city partners identify trafficking and intervention opportunities; coalition members pushed the department to include conversion-device breakdowns and clearer injury-severity fields.

Next steps: Captain Murrah will email the coalition (via Dassie) a fuller breakdown and follow up on conversion-device reporting; the mayor's office and Brady National will continue work on a local gun-trace report.