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...
few forward hard hoping judgment point
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,
envied horrific incidents mean overall police record rest
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.
fair four grieve involved officers pray
We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,
lead police
If that's true, that's very, very troubling, and that should lead to significant disciplining of police officers,
accomplish crime time
I accomplished most of what I wanted to accomplish with the NYPD, ... Crime is down ... and it's time to do something else.
law perfect view
He is in my view the perfect law enforcement officer,
crimes involved major minor people
What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,
arrested believe detective good involved result robbery
He was arrested as a result of good old-fashioned detective work. We believe everyone involved with this robbery is in custody.
arrested behind call far moving quite recently result tips
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.
front future realize
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.
apparently appears happened involved matters recognize relatively
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,
identified
We have not identified them as of this moment,
anybody believes case four homes intention left morning officers police proper shooting verdict
I don't think anybody who's fair-minded believes that those four police officers left their homes that morning with any intention of shooting anybody ... and I think that the verdict in this case is the proper one.
arrested claimed front none ownership pistol possession seat stolen weapon
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.