VivirLatino

It took the hate driven murder of Marcelo Lucero
for Suffolk’s Hispanic Advisory Board to consider ways to improve police community relations. What are they proposing? Flyers.

Mel Guadalupe, Levy’s minority affairs director, said he hoped to receive “corporate support” for the board’s efforts to distribute fliers promoting the Suffolk Police Department policy of not asking a crime victim’s immigration status and teaching officers basic Spanish phrases.

And they can’t even get such a useless program like that funded.

But Legis. Ricardo Montano (D- Central Islip) said there is “not a lot of substance” to the advisory board’s proposals, adding that the county should devote more resources to the all-volunteer board with a $5,000 annual budget.

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