Word: safire
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...does Volpe's guilty plea mean that the blue wall of silence is finally tumbling down, as Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir claim? Don't bet on it. Several law-enforcement experts told TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera that they believe the code of silence remains intact. Volpe refused to name other officers who took part in the assault. And the officers who testified against him waited days and weeks to come forward--and did so then only under the pressure of a highly publicized investigation. Says New York City police lieutenant Eric Adams, co-founder of One Hundred Blacks...
...LAWN Last Sunday, New York City police commissioner Howard Safir (1) was spotted at the Oscars. Four days later, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon (2) was arrested outside New York City police HQ while protesting the death of shooting victim Amadou Diallo. Have the twain...
...front of New York's police headquarters in the past two weeks. The protests are designed to pressure the police department--and especially Mayor Rudolph Giuliani--into addressing racism and brutality in the ranks. And New York City public advocate Mark Green last week called on Police Commissioner Howard Safir to resign, saying Safir has failed to deal adequately with the allegations against his department...
Last Friday, Safir appointed a black officer to the No. 2 position in the street-crimes unit. (Black leaders dismiss the move as window dressing.) Both Safir and Giuliani have emphatically denied that the police are guilty of misconduct or racial bias. The Diallo controversy, Giuliani says, has been stirred up by political activists and the scandal-hungry press. In fact, he points out, fatal shootings by police are at their lowest level in 13 years. The police department is controversial, its supporters say, because it has been doing its job vigorously. And they note that it has been phenomenally...
...agents and police detectives have fanned out across the country to investigate possible links to other disappearances and yet more scams. Safir said eight cases were of particular interest. He refused to elaborate, but in reference to the missing former dancer, he made a point of law. "You do not need a body to charge someone with murder." No, but you do need forensic evidence, argues Sante Kimes' lawyer Jose Muniz, "and there is nothing." Still, charges of credit-card fraud were added to the Kimeses' resume on Friday, and Safir predicts additional charges this Thursday...