Former NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir – who oversaw a historic decrease in crime in the late 1990s and left an indelible mark on the nation’s largest police force – died in Annapolis, Maryland, on ...

Howard Safir, who was a loyal administrator who had the rare New York City distinction of serving as commissioner of both the police and fire departments, died on Monday.. He was 81. Safir, who warned ...

Howard Safir, whose tenure as New York City's 39th police commissioner was marked by a big reduction in violent crimes and two high-profile episodes involving Black men that dramatically increased ...

Violent crime dropped under his sometimes contentious, sometimes innovative watch. But his response to the fatal police shootings of Black men drew criticism. By Clyde Haberman See more of our ...

Lawrence Safir, a distribution executive and sales agent in the U.K. and a leading advocate for the independent film industry in Europe, died Aug. 5 in London after a long illness. He was 62. By Mike ...

Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI). 'We cannot let emotion and politics return us ...

Howard Safir, a New York City police commissioner during the Giuliani administration, backed his sport utility vehicle into a pregnant woman on the Upper East Side on Friday afternoon and then drove ...