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A closer look at Levy's police role

Quick ReadDeparting Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's influence on the running of the police department may have negatively impacted the department's ability to get its work done.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy speaks at a

Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy speaks at a meeting of the Long Island Business Development Council in Ronkonkoma. (June 14, 2011)

Joye Brown

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Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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Finally.

It was long past time for a high-ranking insider to publicly say it.

That departing Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's influence on the running of the police department may have negatively impacted the department's ability to get its work done.

For years, Levy asserted that there was no problem with hate crimes in Suffolk. And that he had statistics to back it up.

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