Long IslandInvestigationsInside Internal AffairsDecember 16, 2021ShareJo'Anna Bird main storyA 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.Jo'Anna Bird narrativeJo’Anna Bird was sure that her violent ex-boyfriend would murder her. She sought help from the police — but with information from long-secret file, Newsday reconstructs how officials mishandled her case.Domestic violence policing on LI has evolved since Bird case, experts sayPolice in Nassau and Suffolk have formed partnerships with advocates and are enforcing a New York law requiring police to make arrests after most domestic violence reports.An officer failed to monitor a prisoner’s safety on the day his partner sexually assaulted herA 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.'Whatever I felt I needed to do to survive.' The woman describes her trauma.An officer failed to monitor a prisoner's safety on the day his partner sexually assaulted her.Nassau, Suffolk police bar access to most disciplinary files, despite repeal of secrecy law
