Then the police commissioner, Howard Safir, announced reforms to the Street Crime Unit, of which the four officers in the Diallo shooting were part.

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Mandell also had these other august personages on his boards and as advisors at firms he owned and controlled: Former House Majority leader Richard K. Armey, L. Paul Bremer, Matthew Carrington, a former member of British Parliament, former New York City Police Chief Howard Safir, and Ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner.

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