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Time for hard choices on Nassau police

January 30, 2012 10:01 PM By JOYE BROWN joye.brown@newsday.com

A Nassau County police cruiser (Oct. 11, 2011)

Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | A Nassau County police cruiser (Oct. 11, 2011)

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Nassau PD restructuring plan

A plan to cut by half the number of police precincts in Nassau County is certain to raise a ruckus. And covering those losses by dubbing the proposed non-precincts "community policing centers" is likely to add fuel to that fire.

But wait a minute.

It's high time Nassau County had it out over what communities want, what they need and what the county can afford when it comes to policing.

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