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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It doesn't mean we're perfect, ... It doesn't mean there haven't been these horrific incidents and it doesn't mean that we can't improve. But when you look at the overall record of this police department, it's something that is envied by the rest of the world.
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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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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'm hoping they'll come forward and tell us what happened, but at this point it's very hard for me to make a judgment because I have very few facts,
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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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What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,
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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,
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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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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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We just want what is best for him now,
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We have not identified them as of this moment,