Schmitt: No hearing on false crime stats
Photo credit: James Carbone | Nassau County presiding officer, Peter Schmitt, arrives at federal court in Central Islip. (May 31, 2012)
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Nassau Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) has turned down a demand from Democratic legislators to hold a hearing on the underreporting of serious crimes in parts of the county.
Schmitt wrote in a hand-delivered letter to three Democrats on the county legislature's Public Safety Committee that police Commissioner Thomas Dale had responded to the misclassification of crime reports...
