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Legislature OKs revival of 6th Pct. Bipartisan, unanimous support for shuttered precinct’s partial reopening BY T E R I W EST
for the precinct’s reopening in her 2019 county budget, citing a shortThe county Legislature unani- age of detectives and a need to be mously passed an amendment fiscally restrictive because the the Monday for the partial reopen- Nassau Interim Finance Authority has oversight over ing of the 6th Pothe budget. lice Precinct on A voice for In an interview the North Shore, 6th Precinct last week, she reaccording to the mained confident Democratic minorPAGE 13 that reopening the ity caucus. precinct was the The amendment designates $800,000 in wrong decision. “Opening these precincts, it funding for the reopening, part of a $1.6 million bundle to reopen sounds to me like an empty gesture,” Curran said. “Not only are the 6th and 8th Precincts. The 6th Precinct is currently we in a control period, we do not part of the 3rd Precinct after they have enough detectives for actual were consolidated in 2012, a cost- squads.” The number of patrolling posaving move that sparked community protest and led to efforts by lice officers would not change with politicians and community groups the reopening of the precinct, she said. to restore the precinct. Legislator Richard Nicolello Nassau County Executive Laura Curran did not include funding Continued on Page 83
PHOTO BY TERI WEST
Dr. Nathaniel S. Lehrman attends a Monday evening service at Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn Heights honoring the 11 killed in Saturday’s shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
N. Shore unites after synagogue shooting BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN
attack on them all. On Saturday, a gunman stormed into the Tree of Life For countless North Shore Synagogue, killing 11 people residents, a mass shooting in a and wounding six others durPittsburgh congregation more ing Shabbat celebrations, than 400 miles away was an making it the deadliest attack
against the Jewish community in American history. The suspected gunman, Robert Bowers, 46, who was later apprehended, reportedly told one officer: “They’re Continued on Page 82
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