Police car lights. (Credit: aaron anderer/flickr)
It was quite a blast at the power of the Suffolk police unions in The New York Times last month two full pages with the headline: “The County Where Cops Call The Shots.” The county is Suffolk, and the article was written by Farah Stockman, a member of The Times editorial board.
It began by quoting a person who cannot be described as “anti-police:” Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta, “a cranky Republican county legislator on Long Island who worked as a [Suffolk] cop for 25 years,” an “unlikely voice for police reform,” according to the story.
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