Word: safire
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...York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker...
...York region," says Isaac Yeffet, former head of security for El Al, the Israeli airline, "is no better prepared for a terrorist attack today than it was before the World Trade Center bombing." Building security is very poor, and "the airports are still wide open." Police commissioner Howard Safir agrees about the airports. "The airlines are responsible for their own security," Safir says, "and that is wrong. If you hire $5-an-hour security guards, you get $5 security...
Giuliani and the two police commissioners of his administration, William Bratton and Howard Safir, have argued strongly that vigorous police action against so-called quality-of-life violations has cut murders in half and greatly reduced other violent crimes. Under the New York style of policing, which has spread to half a dozen other cities, police officers stop and question people at will and penalize those who commit such minor violations as riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and urinating in public. If a person is unable to provide photo identification, he or she is taken to the station, searched...
...Charles Schwarz, was indicted; and 12 other officers from the 70th Precinct were either transferred, suspended or demoted to desk duty. Both the Brooklyn district attorney's office and the U.S. Attorney's office are investigating the incident, and more arrests are expected. New York City police commissioner Howard Safir called it a "horrific crime" and pointed out that it was a police officer who was present who came forward to implicate his colleagues. Safir told TIME, "We are going to make sure the perpetrators...go to jail." Giuliani's critics say the mayor's concern is too little...
...days before New Year?s, the New York Post ran the tally each day on what looked like a big odometer. Meanwhile, police spent the holidays rounding up wanted wife-batterers and walking the beat outside nightclubs known for violence. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police chief Howard Safir (along with former chief William Bratton) are eagerly taking credit for the decline. Though previous Mayor David Dinkins deserves some credit for putting more cops on the beat, Giuliani allowed Bratton to do something Dinkins would never have approved: use those cops to crack down on minor offenders. This quality of life...