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Suffolk County Approves Major Police Reforms But Not Civilian Review Bd.

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/2/21

Suffolk County is the place where, when President Trump four years ago advised law-enforcement officers who used their hands to guide handcuffed suspects into patrol cars so they wouldn't bump their heads "to take the hand away," some cops in the audience laughed and applauded.

Less than a year before that, the former Chief of the Suffolk County Police Department, James Burke, was sentenced to 46 months in Federal prison for a string of abuses that began when he beat a petty thief for stealing a duffel bag containing sex toys and pornography from his SUV. Chief Burke subsequently obstructed justice by bullying Detectives under his command into perjuring themselves in court in an attempt to cover it up. 

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