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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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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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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We just want what is best for him now,
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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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We have not identified them as of this moment,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If that's true, that's very, very troubling, and that should lead to significant disciplining of police officers,