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By the numbers: Nassau police department

A Nassau police car outside the Sixth Precinct.

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | A Nassau police car outside the Sixth Precinct. (Oct. 10, 2011)

Joye Brown

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Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006.

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By the numbers. It's what policing in Nassau County is supposed to be about.

Sure, good police work is about more than numbers. But Nassau has become nationally known for using numbers to help determine where to deploy department resources and detect crime.

Nassau transmits information from its Real Time Intelligence Center to patrol cars and precinct houses -- often in plain sight of...

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