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"Fiscal conservatives and liberal activists both want to curb the power of police unions in Suffolk County. Can they do it?"

“I am writing in response to Suffolk County Presiding Officer Rob Calarco’s March 5 press release regarding the county Legislature’s public hearings on police reform…”

All heading toward the same destination: Reviewing and reforming police practices in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Last week, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran's administration submitted a 395-page reform proposal...

Members of community groups who had been collaborating with Nassau County to reform its police department on Thursday released their own proposal, called "The People's Plan," with recommendations to change county police practices.

Nearly a dozen members of Nassau County’s police reform task force have resigned in protest over what they call a “fraud” plan to reform policing. The task force was established by an executive order from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo...

The Suffolk County Police Department subjected Black and Hispanic drivers to tougher enforcement actions than white motorists over the past two years, stopping and then searching the minority drivers and their vehicles at higher rates...

More than 30 Long Island activist groups are uniting to press for local law enforcement reforms following the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin...

"A state-mandated reform plan for policing in Nassau was passed easily by the county Legislature Monday.

The Laura Curran/Patrick Ryder Police Reform Plan passed by a 16-3 vote Monday afternoon.

But while the vote passed, it didn't come without controversy..."

"This past week, the Ladies Village Improvement Society announced its choice for their very first executive director. Its choice is unexpected and disappointing."

In the wake of last summer's Black Lives Matter protests, community leaders, civil rights advocates and police and county officials were to work together to come up with a state-mandated police reform plan...

Police reform advocates on Long Island published their own plan for overhauling the police. They are scheduled to present their proposals to both counties as officials work to comply with a state requirement to reimagine policing...

Co-chairman Frederick Brewington and more than a dozen members of a Nassau County community advisory panel resigned abruptly Friday night after release of a 310-page police reform plan...

A recent article in the Long Island Press featuring Nassau and Suffolk PBA Presidents James McDermott and Noel DiGerolamo continues to perpetuate the false narrative being peddled by law enforcement...