Howard Safir
Howard Safir
Howard Safirwas New York City Fire Commissioner from 1994 to 1996 and New York City Police Commissioner from 1996 to 2000...
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This appears to be something that happened relatively spontaneously, and apparently some of them did not really recognize the seriousness of the matters they were involved in,
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There was a pistol on the right front seat -- none of the occupants claimed ownership of it, ... They were all arrested for possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property.
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This is a day of mixed emotions for me, ... I'm leaving probably the best job any human being can have.
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This is E-commerce, ... It's potentially the future of drug sales, and we realize we have to get in front of this very quickly.
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Police officers who ignore or brush off a plea for help violate their oath to this city and deserve severe and decisive punishment, ... But what is important is that the NYPD has moved swiftly against those members that violated department policy, and instituted the changes that will prevent the recurrence of future incidents.
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It's the longstanding police department policy to release the background information of officers involved in a shooting incident, such as prior shootings, as well as the relevant background information of the civilian involved, such as arrest history,
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We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,
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If that's true, that's very, very troubling, and that should lead to significant disciplining of police officers,
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He was arrested as a result of good old-fashioned detective work. We believe everyone involved with this robbery is in custody.
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He was arrested as a result of a call from our tips line. We do know that he was moving around quite a bit, and we were not very far behind him and very often we would get to a place where he had recently been.
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Those are tragic incidents but you have to put them in context, ... We have six million contacts with the public a year. We arrest almost 400,000 people a year. And you're talking about three incidents.
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I think that any human being should feel embarrassment that one human being would do this act to another if the allegations are found to be true,
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I accomplished most of what I wanted to accomplish with the NYPD, ... Crime is down ... and it's time to do something else.
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He is in my view the perfect law enforcement officer,