Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Government ==
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!colspan=9|<span align="center" style="width:100%; font-size: 1.25em; white-space: nowrap;color:white;padding:.2em;">'''Briarcliff Manor'''</span>
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!colspan=9|<span style="font-size: 1.1em;">Crime rates (2010–2017)</span>
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| Crime type
| 2011
| 2012
| 2013
| 2014
| 2015
| 2016
| 2017
| 2018
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| [[Homicide]]:
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
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| Robbery:
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
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| [[Aggravated assault]]:
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 1
| 0
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| [[Violent crime|Total violent crime]]:
| 2
| 0
| 1
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
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| Burglary:
| 8
| 4
| 1
| 4
| 7
| 5
| 1
| 3
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| [[Larceny-theft]]:
| 22
| 10
| 10
| 13
| 25
| 18
| 19
| 10
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| [[Motor vehicle theft]]:
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 3
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| [[Property crime|Total property crime]]:
| 30
| 14
| 11
| 17
| 32
| 23
| 20
| 13
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| Arson:
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 0
| 2
| 0
| 0
| 1
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!colspan=10|<span style="font-size:88%;">'''Sources''': ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140319035202/http://data.newsday.com/new-york/data/news/crime-statistics/ Newsday]'';<br />FBI [https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/8tabledatadecpdf/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_by_new_york_by_city_2012.xls 2012], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-8/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_new_york_by_city_2013.xls 2013], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/table-8/table-8-by-state/Table_8_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_New_York_by_City_2014.xls 2014], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/table-8/table-8-state-pieces/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_new_york_by_city_2015.xls 2015], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/table-6/table-6-state-cuts/new-york.xls 2016], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/table-8/table-8-state-cuts/new-york.xls 2017], [https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-8/table-8-state-cuts/new-york.xls 2018] data</span>
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The village government is led by a mayor and four trustees, all unpaid officials elected [[at-large]] for two-year terms.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=88}} The current mayor is Steven A. Vescio,<ref name="Mayor"/> elected in 2019.<ref name="elected">{{cite news|title=Village election results: Updated with Airmont vote totals|newspaper=The Journal News|url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/03/19/village-elections-2019-results-westchester-rockland-putnam/3210881002/|date=March 19, 2019|access-date=April 3, 2019}}</ref> A full-time, appointed village manager handles day-to-day community affairs;<ref name="About"/> the first was Max Vogel in 1967.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|pages=59–61}} The current Village Manager is Josh Ringel. Briarcliff Manor's government operates from the village hall, which houses the Justice Court and the administrative offices of the Village (except for DPW and Recreation).<ref name="Manager"/><ref name="Mayor"/><ref name="JusticeCourt"/> {{As of|2014|February}}, there are 5,531 registered voters in Briarcliff Manor.<ref name="March18Election"/> {{As of|2017}} the village's government employed 69 people full-time,<ref name="17-18budget"/> including their building department, planning board, department of public works, the recreation department, the police department, the architectural review advisory committee, and the conservation advisory council.<ref name="VillageOverview"/> The village government administered a 2017–18 operating budget of approximately $28 million which predominantly went towards public works, police protection, debt service, and recreational facilities and services.<ref name="17-18budget"/>

Briarcliff Manor maintains a voting custom that dates to at least around 1905. In addition to its customary general election, held at the same day in every municipality in New York, the village has a nonpartisan [[caucus]], a town meeting-style forum to determine officeholders. The system of the People's Caucus is largely unique to the village, and has been described as an extension of the [[New England town]] hall concept. The People's Caucus, officially formed in 1946, chooses candidates by majority vote two months before the village election, where the candidates usually run unopposed, turning the election into a formality.<ref name="Caucus"/> The caucus is open to citizens of 18 years or over who have lived in the village for at least a month; voter registration is not required. Voters and candidates do not declare party affiliations, instead candidates present their platforms in early January of each year, and weeks later the caucus meets again to vote.<ref name="Caucus2"/>

In the [[Westchester County Board of Legislators]], the western portion of Briarcliff Manor (in Ossining) is represented by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and [[Majority Leader]] Catherine Borgia in District 9,<ref name="Borgia1"/><ref name="Borgia2"/> while the eastern part (in Mount Pleasant) is represented by [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative]] Margaret A. Cunzio in District 3.<ref name="Cunzio1"/><ref name="Cunzio2"/> In the [[New York State Legislature]], the western portion of the village is represented by Democrat [[Sandy Galef]] for the [[New York State Assembly]]'s 95th District, while the eastern portion is represented by Democrat [[Thomas Abinanti]] for the Assembly's 92nd District.<ref name="Galef"/><ref name="Abinanti"/> Democrat [[David Carlucci]] represents the Ossining portion of the village for the [[New York Senate]]'s 38th District, and [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Terrence Murphy (chiropractor)|Terrence Murphy]] represents the Mount Pleasant end of the village in the Senate's 40th District.<ref name="Carlucci"/><ref name="Murphy"/> In [[United States Congress|Congress]], the village is represented by {{Representative|nycd|17|fmt=pfl}} in the [[U.S. House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] from New York's [[New York's 17th congressional district|17th District]] and Democrats [[Kirsten Gillibrand]] and [[Chuck Schumer]] in the [[United States Senate|Senate]].<ref name="Congress"/>

=== Crime ===
[[File:Police cruiser of Briarcliff Manor (1962).jpg|thumb|left|alt=1960s white sedan parked in front of a brick building|A Briarcliff Manor [[Ford Fairlane (Americas)|Ford Fairlane]] police cruiser in 1962]]
The Briarcliff Manor police force was founded by Edward Cashman, a one-person force who covered his beat on foot and by bicycle.<ref name="1939history"/> The crime rate was low during both world wars, and village police work primarily involved rounding up animals (as the constabulary had done since before the Revolution). Most other cases were traffic violations, due to the village's size and parkway access. During the 1980s (as in the 1940s), the police blotter primarily consisted of accidents and traffic violations on the four major roads traversing the village; a 1939 village history asserted that "Briarcliff has never had a serious crime".<ref name="1939history"/> Burglaries have been primarily residential, and murder is rare. In 1989, when the police force considered replacing its .38 six-shot revolvers with semiautomatic 9mm pistols, opinion was divided; village officials could not remember when an officer last fired a gun on duty.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=208}}

In its study of 2012 FBI [[Uniform Crime Reports]], national realtor Movoto LLC assessed Briarcliff Manor as the second-safest municipality in New York, with the second-lowest crime rate in the state. According to the FBI reports, the village had no reported violent crimes in 2012 and a resident had a 1-in-569 chance of being a crime victim.<ref name="CrimeRate"/><ref name="SafestPlaces"/> In 2014, security system company Safe Choice Security used the same data and assessed Briarcliff Manor as the safest municipality in New York.<ref name="SafeChoice"/> A SafeWise report in 2016 using 2014 FBI data assessed the village as the third safest in New York.<ref name="SafeWise"/>

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