Tag: Howard Safir
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Hizzoner’s Relationship Not Private Affair by JIM DWYER
Sunday, May 07, 2000 Last fall, a Daily News reporter wondered why the mayor had vanished most summer weekends. For years, the mayor made public appearances on Saturdays or Sundays all summer long, so reporter Michael O. Allen asked the mayor’s press office about his schedule. Because the answers were vague, Allen asked for the…
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Volpe’s Return Spurs Angry Blast
Sunday, September 7, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Lawyers for alleged police torture victim Abner Louima yesterday criticized city officials for allowing the central suspect in the 70th Precinct scandal to return to police duty. Officer Justin Volpe, accused of sodomizing Louima with a stick, will return to modified duty this…
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Plungers Waved In Angry March
Sunday, August 17, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, CAROLINA GONZALEZ and PAUL SCHWARTZMAN, Daily News Staff Writers Brandishing toilet plungers and chanting “KKK must go!” thousands of angry protesters yesterday descended on Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct, where two cops have been charged with torturing a Haitian immigrant. Pressed tightly against a line of cops standing behind…
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Cops Hunt Gang In Brazen Heist: Detective and ex-cop survive bloody ambush by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DONALD BERTRAND, JOHN MARZULLI, BLANCA M. QUINTANILLA, and JAMES RUTENBERG; Written by JERE HESTER, Daily News Staff Writers
Saturday, May 10, 1997 Police hunted last night for a heavily armed gang that escaped on a public bus after ambushing an off-duty police detective and a retired cop delivering a payroll in Queens. Wielding assault rifles and wearing hooded sweatshirts, the gunmen sprayed a quiet Flushing street with more than 50 rounds. They mercilessly…
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Don’t Pass The Ammunition; Mayor holds off on new bullets
March 5, 1997 by BOB LIFF, MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani put the brakes on the police plan to arm cops with controversial hollow-point bullets yesterday — demanding to see studies on the expanding rounds before approving the change. Giuliani summoned Police Commissioner Howard Safir and his top…
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LIVOTI BOUNCED IN SAFIR CRACKDOWN; Commish orders profiles of too-tough cops
February 22, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday vowed tougher monitoring of cops accused of brutality after he fired a controversial Bronx officer whose use of an illegal choke hold led to a man’s death. Safir canned Officer Francis Livoti for violating departmental regulations…
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SLOWDOWN NOT THE TICKET; Rudy sez cops’ll be punished
January 25, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday escalated his contract fight with city cops, warning rank-and-file officers not to engage in a ticket slowdown — or else. “If a police officer absolutely refuses to do his or her job, then that police officer will have to be disciplined,”…