Is Schmitt Lying Again?

Of course he is.

The July 20th Massapequa Post article about Schmitt’s community forum caught my attention. At the forum he said that gang meetings were being held in the Massapequa Preserve. According to Schmitt, "Gangs have been holding meetings in the Massapequa preserve. They have been dividing up the county into zones during these meetings. They have come from as far away as South Carolina. I know this because a police officer on the scene told me." Schmitt says he got this information from a “police officer on the scene????”
I am curious to know, was this an undercover officer?
If the officer was undercover, then Schmitt has compromised that officers safety and his investigation.
Was the officer in uniform? And if a uniformed officer was present for this meeting, why weren’t there arrests made of apparent leaders of a major gang movement?
I haven't seen any reports in the local media of a gang bust in the Massapequa Preserve.
Is Schmitt just making things up again? From the other comments he made in the article, it seems so.
Schmitt cites a “decreasing number of police officers” and yet the Nassau Police Academy is currently graduating officers from full classes. Schmitt goes on about the increase in crime but thankfully Leg. Mejias and DA Dillon have both shown that Schmitt is just plain lying about that.
Mejias said "Gang activity is actually down 38 percent from a year ago. Schmitt’s comments are nothing more than an election-year ploy."
"Dillon, a Republican, actually held a press conference awhile ago that denounced Schmitt for lying about crime rates. Forbes magazine named Long Island number one in the nation with the fewest crimes relative to its population in the May 23 issue."
When confronted about his lies in the article and his lies in the past, Schmitt simply brushes them aside as if lying to his constituents is the right thing to do. I believe that is wrong and I would bet the rest of the district does too. What Schmitt and his republican cohorts are doing is nothing more than fear-mongering in an election year. If Schmitt’s re-election campaign is based on lies and fear, then all I have to say with apologies to Joseph Welch, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
Also in the article, attendees at the meeting said that Nassau County is becoming more “urban.” John O’Brien, a former Massapequa Park Village Board Trustee complains "I would like to see improvements in the congestion and high taxes as well."
We know of course that that is the new campaign theme for the Nassau republicans. Also, that it is local zoning boards, not Nassau County that controls what is being built in our neighborhoods. If there are complaints about “congestion,” those concerns should be expressed to the zoning boards and the Town Board and Supervisor or in the case of Massapequa Park, the Mayor and the Trustees.

Where are the media questions about Schmitt's allegations of gang meeting the preserve?