Louis Civello, a Suffolk County police officer and president of the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association, detailed Tuesday a prior incident in which a protester he once arrested tracked him down and waited outside his home.
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This job is harder than ever before," Civello said during a New York State Public Safety Alliance event advocating for stronger legal protections for law enforcement officers and other local officials.
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Civello recounted an incident in early 2026 in which he arrested a protester who showed up at his office for trespassing.
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"Well, that wasn't enough for this individual," Civello said.
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He then decided he was going to find my address, came to my home with a billboard truck.
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That's how much money these people are making.
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They can buy billboard trucks," Civello continued.
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Everyone knows where my building is in Suffolk County.
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There are seven police precincts in Suffolk County that you can protest in front of if you so choose.
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You only come to my home to terrorize my family, to get at me via my wife and my children," Civello said.
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He then explained that the harassment his family endured from the provocateur was far from an isolated incident, but rather the norm.
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He used the moment as an example of why he believed New York state needed to enact stronger protections for police officers, particularly as it pertains to privacy.
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"The laws are woefully inadequate, and they're gonna get worse if we don't work to fix them," he said.
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So if you are a rapist, and I as a police officer arrest you, you can sit at the edge of my driveway and greet my wife as she comes home.
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No law is publishing my address.
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If you want to look me up, look any police officer up, look any of us up, it's a few clicks of a mouse," he continued.
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Civello called for an anti-doxxing law, and also questioned why New York doesn't have a "Halo Law," the popular moniker assigned to a newly enacted Florida statute that protects first responders from harassment after they give an individual a warning.
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Why don't we have laws that make sense?" Civello asked.
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Civello was not the only law enforcement officer calling for stronger protections.
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"All we're asking for is fifteen foot," Scott Munro, the president of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said.
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"Fifteen foot, that's all we're asking for, for safety reasons."
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Munro also highlighted the broader coalition the New York State Public Safety Alliance had cobbled together in an effort to protect public employees from civilian violence.
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The group, Munro relayed, included 99 unions.
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"You're gonna say 'why MTA?'" Munro said, "it's because they're assaulted every day, they're in their faces every day," he continued.
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Those people get assaulted every day.
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That's what's going on," Munro said.
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Fox News Digital contacted the Suffolk County Police Benevolent Association and the Detectives' Endowment Association, which runs the New York State Public Safety Alliance, for further comment.
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