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Crime down, terror concerns up in county
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County police taking precautions at Jewish-owned businesses By B i LL SAN ANtONiO Nassau County police have taken “precautionary measures” at Jewish-owned businesses and houses of worship in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris last week despite no apparent threat being made against the county, officials said Tuesday. The announcement came shortly after police and Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano announced that crime in the county had decreased 25 percent overall since 2009 and that major crimes dropped 9.5 percent from 2013 to 2014. Acting Nassau County Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter said patrols have increased near Jewish institutions since a gunman stormed a kosher delicatessen in east Paris on Friday morning two days after an apparent jihadist attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which has a history
of publishing political cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. On Monday, a swastika was discovered engraved onto a glass panel at the Long Island Railroad station in Cedarhurst, which has a large orthodox Jewish population. Long Island Railroad stations are out of the jurisdiction of Nassau County police. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the maintenance of the train stations, has its own law enforcement agency that monitors them. “This kind of behavior will not be tolerated in Nassau County,” Krumpter said, adding that he would be in favor of the increased use of security cameras throughout Nassau if county officials and analysis deemed them necessary. Mangano, a Republican who was first elected in 2009, said the county crime rate is at its lowest point since Nassau began recording crime statistics in the 1960s. Continued on Page 56
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Retired New York Police Department Officer Frank Cilluffo was sworn in as Great Neck Park District Commissioner Monday. See story on page 4.
Four Great Neck students named Intel semifinalists By A dA m L i d g e t t
a friendship and a disease. Beeferman said her interThe research that earned est in studies that led to her reGreat Neck North High School port “Intracellular Crosstalk in senior Monica Beeferman one Protein Aggregation of E. coli of the district’s four semifinal Cells: An Examination of the selections in the 2015 Intel Sci- Proteostasis Network,” began ence Talent Search began with when she was in eighth grade
and wanted to better understand a friend’s severe form of muscular dystrophy. “There are proteins in all cells that fold to maintain stability, and there is a shape each protein folds in to determine Continued on Page 56
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