Critics: Cuomo plan would hurt crime-fighting
Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo gives his State of the Budget speech in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany. (Jan. 17, 2012)
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ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's proposal to shut a state ballistics database that he says has been costly and has helped solve too few crimes has sparked a sharp debate among state legislators.
Cuomo's proposal got cheers from some Republicans who say New York's Combined Ballistic Identification System, or CoBIS, is a "waste of time, money and manpower." But it's drawn jeers from Democrats...
