22 Quotes by Howard Safir

We grieve for Amadou Diallo and the four officers involved and pray they get a fair trial,

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.

If that's true, that's very, very troubling, and that should lead to significant disciplining of police officers,

He was arrested as a result of good old-fashioned detective work. We believe everyone involved with this robbery is in custody.

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.

He is in my view the perfect law enforcement officer,

What we find is that many of the people involved in minor crimes are the same people that are involved in major crimes,

I accomplished most of what I wanted to accomplish with the NYPD, ... Crime is down ... and it's time to do something else.

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,