Howard Safir Arrest Quotations

Those are tragic incidents but you have to put them in context, ... We have six million contacts with the public a year. We arrest almost 400,000 people a year. And you're talking about three incidents.

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.

It's the longstanding police department policy to release the background information of officers involved in a shooting incident, such as prior shootings, as well as the relevant background information of the civilian involved, such as arrest history,

There was a pistol on the right front seat -- none of the occupants claimed ownership of it, ... They were all arrested for possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property.