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Friday, October 14, 2022
Vol. 97, No. 41
COVERT AVE. STREET FAIR
CROWDED G.N. LIBRARY ELECTION
OYSTERFEST RETURNS
PAGES 23-30
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FITNESS IS FUN
Nassau on pace for 34% rise in crime More than 4,600 reported during first 8 months of ‘22 BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Nassau County is on pace for more than 7,000 major crimes this year, roughly a 34% increase over the 5,230 major crimes reported throughout the county in 2021, according to statistics from the Nassau County Police Department. A total of 4,675 major crimes took place in Nassau County through the first eight months of the year, nearly 90% of the total major crimes the county reported all of 2021, according to crime statistics obtained by Blank Slate Media under a Freedom of Information Law request submitted to the Nassau County Po-
lice Department. Nassau has provided monthly crime statistics that were posted online in the past, but the county has not updated them since March. Aside from grand larceny, the list of major crimes includes murder, rape, criminal sexual acts, sexual abuse, commercial robberies, other robberies, assault felonies, residential burglaries, other burglaries and stolen vehicles. In 2021, a total of 3,201 or 61% of the county’s major crimes were grand larcenies, the highest percentage out of all other crimes, according to the statistics. During the first eight months of
2022, county numbers show a total of 2,809 grand larcenies accounted for 60% of Nassau’s major crimes. Nassau County is on pace to report more than 4,200 grand larcenies this year, an increase of roughly 32% from 2021. A total of 560 vehicles were stolen in Nassau last year, a figure that has already been surpassed during the first eight months of 2022 with 690 thefts in 2022, according to statistics. That figure is projected to grow to 1,032 by the end of the year, an increase of more than 84% from last year’s total. A total of 13,190 “other crimes” Continued on Page 42
Desena calls for 11% tax cut in proposed budget Would be funded by tapping into discovered reserves BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Saddle Rock students used problem-solving and teamwork skills to complete fitness challenges.
DeSena said the proposed tax cut would be the largest in the North Hempstead Town Super- town’s history and would be paid for visor Jennifer DeSena on Tuesday by tapping into reserves her office called for an 11% tax cut to be in- had recently discovered. The town supervisor said the cluded in the $158.4 tentative budget for 2023 she had previously pro- town’s current reserves are at least $26 million, well in excess of the posed.
minimum set by the town board in 2011. That policy mandates a reserve equal to no less than 10% of the town’s general fund, a portion of the town budget that in 2021 was $71.1 million. Continued on Page 43
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