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Report: Suffolk homicides at 10-year low

Police stand at a crime scene in Manorville.

Photo credit: James Carbone | Police stand at a crime scene in Manorville. (March 12, 2012)

Homicides in Suffolk County fell to 23 last year, a 10-year low for the county and a dramatic decrease from 2010, when detectives investigated 50 killings and solved fewer than half of them, records show.

The decrease in homicides was part of an overall decrease in violent crime, which fell 3.9 percent in Suffolk last year, according to records.

In Nassau County, homicides rose from...

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