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...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...
...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...
...successes have remained unsung, however, in the face of D.A.R.E.'s overwhelming hegemony. Last month, for instance, New York City signed on to D.A.R.E. at an estimated cost of $8.8 million. Even though Life Skills has been tested in 50 New York schools over the decade, police commissioner Howard Safir said he had never heard of it. Meanwhile, Glenn Levant, head of D.A.R.E. America, dismisses his program's negative evaluations: "Just because someone publishes a paper and calls it a study does not really mean anything, particularly when you're dealing with something as subjective as whether prevention works...
...York City police commissioner; in Manhattan. Bratton is credited by many for a remarkable 27% drop in crime. But Gotham gossip long suggested that his boss, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, resented the commissioner's media profile (including a TIME cover) and independent nature. Bratton's successor, fire commissioner Howard Safir, is a Giuliani loyalist...
Such intense loyalties are probably a product of Safire's childhood. The youngest of three sons of a successful New York City thread manufacturer, Safire was just four years old -- and his brothers were teenagers -- when his father died of lung cancer, leaving the family not poor, but pinched. (Their name was Safir, but the columnist added a final vowel in the 1950s to make spelling match pronunciation.) "Those were tough times," says Leonard Safir, who recalls that his brother Bill "was bounced around a lot as a boy." According to Janklow, Safire's mother taught her sons...