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