The real reason behind the precinct revamp
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County police cars outside the Fifth Precinct in Elmont. The Fifth is one of four precincts that the county executive plans to convert to a "community policing center." (Jan. 30, 2012)
Why does Nassau County want to cut half of its eight police precincts? The real answer was hinted at during Monday's legislative committee hearings.
Is it because of advances in technology? Nope. Finances? Closer. Is it because Nassau wanted and felt it needed to do a carefully calibrated end run around mandatory staffing agreements it made with its police union decades ago? Bingo.
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