By Matt Fleischer 8/23/99 12:00am

Safir’s Plan to Police the Police Has a Loophole

It would seem Police Commissioner Howard Safir and Mayor Rudy Giuliani elegantly sidestepped a giant black eye this month. Federal prosecutors of the Brooklyn-based Eastern District have been threatening to sue the city for failing to adequately punish police officers involved in brutality, and the inevitable outcome appeared to be some kind of Justice Department-imposed Read More

By Matt Fleischer 3/22/99 12:00am

Judging Another Judge: A Case of the Nasties

Civil Court Judge Walter Tolub can be tart and downright biting–in one recent case, interrupting an attorney to ask, “If you stopped talking, do you think you’d die?”

Sometimes, that verve leaks into his printed decisions. And sometimes, well, he just can’t help himself, and the sarcasm wells up and froths all over any old Read More