OLA’s proposed legislation asks local police to do one thing: keep the peace The tension in the air at the Riverhead Family Court recently wasn’t theoretical; it was tangible and deeply alarming. Imagine standing outside a local courthouse, watching a resident being pulled from a car by heavily armed, masked men. Now imagine the largest of those men turning toward a bystander who was simply documenting the scene, his thumb resting heavily on the trigger of a pepper spray canister, with the...