FILE— Former Police Commissioner Howard Safir, left, presents the official police commissioner's badge to the newly named New York City police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, center, as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani looks on, at New York's City Hall, Aug. 19, 2000. Safir, the former New York City police commissioner whose four-year tenure in the late 1990s included sharp declines in the city's murder tolls but also some of its most notorious episodes of police killings of Black men, has died. He was 81. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File)
