Ex-Police Official (Howard Safir) Backs Car Into Pregnant Woman

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

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 away, the police said.

The woman, Joanne M. Valarezo, 30, of the Bronx, was not knocked down and was not seriously injured in the accident, which occurred at 2:25 p.m. in front of 1418 Third Avenue, the authorities said. They said she was able to jot down the license plate of Mr. Safir’s black 2009 Cadillac Escalade.

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He was tapped in 1996 by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for the position after spending two years leading the Fire Department. The crime rate dropped during his tenure, and in 1998 killings dropped to their lowest level since 1962. Mr. Safir bristled at critics who contended that he was simply coasting on the innovations of his predecessor, William J. Bratton.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/nyregion/09safir.html

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Rudy sure knows how to pick 'em...

[hlthe2b]

1. Misogyny rules in that Rudy-associated circle

[KansDem]

2. Was this the one "pregnant woman bumped by domestic SUV" during the Obama Administration?

No doubt Giuliani will tell us there weren't any during the Bush Aministration...

[Enrique]

3. I'm walkin' here! n/t

[Ian David]

4. I wonder if Howard Safir got the woman pregnant in Rudy 9iu11ani's "Command Center / Slam Pad." n/t