Investigations
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An officer failed to monitor a prisoner’s safety on the day his partner sexually assaulted her
A Suffolk officer forced a woman into oral sex inside the First Precinct. His partner escaped punishment for fabricating a log that was supposed to track her movements.
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Most organ transplants stopped due to COVID-19 last year, often with dire results
At the height of the pandemic, New York's organ transplant system shut down for two months, causing life-and-death dilemmas for hundreds of patients, many from Long Island. Thomas Maier reports.
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An LI cop said a stolen SUV intentionally rammed his car. This video shows otherwise, experts said.
The surveillance video captured the start of a stolen car chase that ended with officers kicking the suspect on a body camera recording.
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Newsday recommends Hidden file reveals police failed to protect Jo'Anna Bird from violent ex-boyfriend
A 781-page file kept secret by Nassau police for more than a decade detailed the repeated policing failures leading up to her murder in 2009. Read the story.
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6,539 Black people tried to become police officers on LI. Only 67 were hired.
Minority applicants weren’t hired nearly as often as white ones in the past decade, and experts see “clear evidence that it is not the people, it is the process” causing the disparity.
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4 men were arrested because of what LI police said. Here’s what videos showed.
A Newsday investigation finds evidence that officers jailed people without cause, used unjustified force and exposed taxpayers to lawsuits. Faith Jessie reports from the studio.
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Northrop Grumman, Navy agree to $406M cleanup of plume
The defense contractor and the Navy reached a deal in principle with the state that would install a series of new contaminant extraction wells inside and along the edges of the 4.3-mile-long, 2.1-mile-wide Grumman plume.
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Newsday recommends An officer failed to monitor a prisoner’s safety on the day his partner sexually assaulted her
A Suffolk officer forced a woman into oral sex inside the First Precinct. His partner escaped punishment for fabricating a log that was supposed to track her movements.
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Newsday sues NCPD to release police discipline records
The department refused to release internal affairs documents, including a report on how officers failed to protect Jo'Anna Bird from the ex-boyfriend who murdered her in 2009.
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Handgun permit applications surge on Long Island
The increase began around March, when the coronavirus pandemic started to peak on the Island, and continued after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked protests, experts say.
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‘They don’t tell you anything... Then all of a sudden your mother’s dead.’
Patients isolated inside. Loved ones kept in the dark. See how COVID-19 ravaged LI’s second-largest nursing home.
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Nassau, Suffolk concealed court records of alleged police misconduct over last 7 years
Over the last seven years, attorneys representing the two counties have secured so-called confidentiality orders in at least 60 federal civil rights lawsuits that allege wrongdoing by members of the Nassau or Suffolk County police departments, according to the dockets of the U.S. District Court with jurisdiction over Long Island.
