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 ...

Howard Safir, who served as New York City's police commissioner from 1996 to 2000, died at 81 on Sept. 11, 2023.

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 war… ...

Howard Safir, who presided over declining rates of violent crime as New York City’s police commissioner in the late 1990s, but who struck many New Yorkers as tone-deaf to racial sensibilities ...

Before he was commissioner of the NYPD, Safir was the fire commissioner from 1994 to 1996. Safir died in Maryland at 81 years old. His cause of death is not yet known.

Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI). Police lives matter.