Violent crime dropped under his sometimes contentious, sometimes innovative watch. But his response to the fatal police shootings of Black men drew criticism.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir, whose four-year tenure in the late 1990s included sharp declines in the city’s murder tolls, has died.
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