Spurred by reporting from ProPublica, Newsday and This American Life, Suffolk County police will revisit cases in which parents allege misconduct.
At the behest of county lawmakers, the Suffolk County Police
Department said Thursday it will look into what went wrong when Latino
families came to the department in 2016 and 2017, desperate for help
finding teenage children who had disappeared, only to have their
concerns ignored and their children labeled runaways.
It turned out that many of the missing had been murdered by members
of the gang MS-13, some of them buried in Suffolk County woods known as
the gang’s “killing fields.”
The county executive and the head of the Police Department also have
agreed to meet with advocates for immigrant and Latino Long Islanders in
the coming days.
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Source: ProPublica
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