Sag Harbor Express Runs Front Page Article Entitled "Burke Homicide - Cops Mum."

The village of North Haven wants all of its residents to feel safe and secure knowing that the police are on the job and working the case. That's all well and good. There's only one problem: when it comes to politicians and telling the truth about sensitive issues, they seem to be chronic liars who perform little research on their own and getting the facts straight. There is a link to Suffolk County Sheriff's own statistics for the last several years at the bottom of this post and they aren't even remotely close to what the Mayor of North Haven would have her constituents believe. The title of this post is a link to the Sag Harbor Express' website. Read it for yourself (and weep).

The first paragraph of the article reads as follows.
"Since 2002, there have been 17 homicides in Suffolk county, North Haven Mayor Lauren Nolan learned this week. County police have solved 16 of them. The one remaining is the one and only one that has ever taken place in her village."

While this may be reassuring to North Haven Residents, it's not true.

In fact, there have been been over two hundred and thirty murders in Suffolk county in the last ten years of which 195 have been solved.

One can only imagine the total silence from the Suffolk County Homicide squad's Lieutenant Jack Fitzpatrick, and a lack of investigative reportage from the local papers that has left the citizens of North Haven feeling a bit more nervous with every passing day.

As The Southampton Press reported on their front page, "With no arrest yet, Neighbors are Tense," the article gave no more new information than the Express.

Citizens of the Hamptons deserve more information from both the police and the local papers when the subject's cold-blooded murder; a rather rare occurrence in these parts, even if it seems to be on the rise.

http://safety.fizber.com/New-York/Suffolk-County-Sheriff/