Long Island Press Article

[mrwizard]

This article is too long to cut and paste (5 pages) so I'm just going to give you a link to page 1. It will give the retired guys who live out of the area an idea what today's Cops have to put up with. It ain't pretty. This obviously wasn't written by someone who spends most of their day with their feet up on the desk in a cubicle in Melville.

www.longislandpress.com/2011/12/08/ed-manganos-war-with-nassau-county-police/

[bigjob]

That was a great article, worth the read. The unions should really try to get this out there

[smallville]

That article is a MUST read for everyone.

[redstone14]

Wow, great article. Thanks for posting it Wiz.

Things are worse than I imagined.

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This part of the article is referring to RMS. The last sentence in the quote could also describe County government:

While the cops keep racking up overtime as a direct result of the system, another computer consultant with direct knowledge of it describes the setup this way: “The software is literally archaic, dysfunctional and runs on an obsolete platform.”

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Are they seriously talking about doing this?..........................

Perhaps the most controversial Mangano move, however, is the planned closure of two of the county’s eight precincts. Though still unidentified, Carver tells the Press his theory is Mangano will choose the Second in Woodbury and the Fourth in Hewlett [the Sixth in Manhasset has also been mentioned as a potential candidate].

While there will be the same amount of car posts, one of the major effects of the precinct cuts, explains Carver, will be that the patrol cars, in some cases, will have longer distances to respond. He believes the department’s top brass will not want the officers to go back to headquarters to process arrests but to do so in their cars.

“I have never seen a prisoner processed in the back seat of a police car, never seen a detective conduct an interview in the back of a police car, never seen a criminal investigation conducted in the back of a police car,” he says.

“Police cars don’t have evidence lockers. There is no boss there. The police car has become a report-taking car, instead of an investigatory and chronic intervention tool. They will sit on the phone with data processing, which has [also] been affected by attrition.”

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They could always put the Detectives in the Booths..............

Ciccone believes the closures will affect detectives as well.

“Detectives are based out of their local precinct,” he explains. “A large part of their investigation is conducted within the station house—whether it is interrogation or an interview with a witness. In addition, detectives working out of another station house will be that much further removed from the area where the witness, subjects and crime scenes are located.”

Krumpter insists that the plan to close two precincts will not affect the department. Instead, he says the workload will be more equally spread out among the six proposed new precincts.

“What we are looking to do is to create a situation where no precinct will be busier that the department’s current busiest precinct, and leveling out the workload and maximizing the overall efficiency within a precinct,” he says.

Unbelievable

[ncpdretired]

Wizard,
Thank you for this article. Being out of New York for over 34 years I really did not know how bad the situation had gotten. I guess I still had the "old job" in my wheel house. 1977 was the last year I worked so my vision was clouded. God help the current MOS.

[rabbit]

^^^ NICE, Live Long & Prosper oldtimer

[lost]

This is probably the best article that she has ever written. The shame of it is that no one reads the LI Press.