Suffolk Closeup: County police unions wield great power - Shelter Island Reporter
Police car lights. (Credit: aaron_anderer/flickr) It was quite a blast at the power of the Suffolk police unions in The New York Times last month — two full pages with the headline: “The County Where Cops Call The Shots.” The county is Suffolk, and the article was written by Farah Stockman, a member of The Times editorial board. It began by quoting a person who cannot be described as “anti-police:” Suffolk Legislator Rob Trotta, “a cranky Republican county legislator on Long Island who worked as a [Suffolk] cop for 25 years,” an “unlikely voice for pol...