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Security
policing your homeland, your state, your city
By Safir, Howard & Whitman, Ellis
- ISBN
- 978-0-31230-194-1
- Publisher
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2003
The NYPD has an operating budget of $3.7 billion, larger than many Fortune 500 companies, and is responsible for protecting over 7.5 million citizens. Safir, whom Rudolph Giuliani has described as the city's greatest police commissioner ever, served in the top spot from 1996 to 2000. During that time, the major crimes rate was reduced by 38 percent-although, as Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman have noted in The Crime Drop in America, there ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
