it's a myth, like most everything about guiliani's legacy. community poilicing, started by bratton, during dinkins, and continued during rudy's first term until rudy fired bratton because he was getting deserved credit, made brooklyn better. that plus the fact that clinton spent so much on crime fighting extra police budgets that crime dropped hugely in the US in his first term, which was also rudy's first term. urban crime stats nationally went down far more than in nyc during that period. also the crack epidemic ended and that too made bad neighborhoods less scary. rudy that racist cunt just took credit for it but he hired kelly and then that crook kerik to run the po-po dept and they abandoned the boroughs, a trend that continued thru bloomberg's administration. after the first term, 'quality of life' cleanup mostly meant getting on the nightly news for having his cops rough up some squeegy guy or shoot an unarmed brother in the boogie down. but the only borough that had hugely different crime numbers in rudy's second term was manhattan, again riding the wave of the clinton economy and also as a result of the trend started by koch and continued by dinkins and rudy and blumberg to toss the negroes out of mixed neighborhoods and make them all white and rich.Essence_Smith wrote:Say what you will about Rudy and the tactics he and his corrupt police commissioner used at the time, there were parts of Brooklyn you couldn't even walk through without getting robbed before they did what they did...I grumbled at the "quality of life" enforcement etc in my late teens but looking back they cleaned up a lot of mess that Dinkins and Koch left...they did it like some thugs, but they did clean this place up considerably...tubro wrote:the biggest twat of them all, rudolf guiliani (about whom, in fairness, having been in my apartment two blocks from the World Trade Center on 9-11, i'll always say that if you can absolutely guaranty that airplanes will fly into buildings, he can be my mayor but aside from the 10 days after that happens, isn't qualified to be dog catcher).
don't believe the rudy myth, even on this one issue. he was the worst.