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Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Jo’Anna Bird was sure that her violent ex-boyfriend would murder her. She sought help from the police – but with information from a long-secret file, Newsday reconstructs how officials mishandled her case.

Internal affairs file kept secret by Nassau police for more than a decade detailed the repeated policing failures leading up to her murder in 2009.

Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Law enforcement’s blue wall of silence has helped Long Island police avoid public accountability for failing to protect a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend

Some local military veterans did that very thing on Wednesday, saying thanks with a modest but meaningful gesture.

Seward Redesign plans 2800 E. Lake redevelopment that will include affordable housing, commercial spaces and a home for nonprofits.