In Suffolk, bowing to the power of the people
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | A police cruiser outside of the Suffolk County Third Precinct in Bay Shore. (March 2, 2010)
County Executive Steve Bellone and Suffolk's police officers' union responded with lightning speed Monday to criticism of a tentative pact that could have had the highest-paid officers earning almost $200,000 a year by 2020.
The sides must have set a world record coming up with a new tentative agreement that would do two necessary things: reduce the term of the initial pact, which at 10 years...
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