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which was quite a decrease from 2000. - under mayor rudy giuliani, new york, once the crime capital, is now the safest large city in america, according to the fbi. even the most cynical new yorkers credit giuliani with vastly improving their quality of life. - this is a remarkable moment of transformation for the city. these are the years of the yankees and derek jeter. these are the first years of chelsea. these are the first years of brooklyn happening. so the art scene begins to expand in these ways. this is the new york of sex and the city. - there was a sense among new yorkers, and among people around the world, that the city was a different, and more vibrant, and bigger, and better place than it had been for a very long time. - mayor giuliani has been, in my view, the best mayor we ve had for public safety. - giuliani happens to be an excellent mayor. - the man s great. look what he s done for brooklyn. look what he s done for new york. - this is becoming an enormous national s
to his second term. - we did it! we turned this city around. - in the second term, giuliani is increasingly a lone ranger in his politics and in his personal life. - when rudy comes in for his second term, which he treats as sort of a victory lap, overwhelming win. but he immediately begins to see the white house off in the distance. - ironically, he maybe accomplished too much in the first four years. he probably should have paced himself a little more. - he starts off his second term by saying, we re gonna end jaywalking, in a city where jaywalking has been and continues to be an art form. and, you know, new yorkers broadly responded like, what? - at first, people laughed when he launched a politeness campaign. - everybody has to be civil. - but the laughter turned to protest when giuliani put up pedestrian barricades, ticketed jaywalkers, and tried to restrict street artists. - like, the first time, he was mayor rudy.
- we had a research team make a vulnerability study sort of a road map to defend him. - this is parts six, seven, eight, and nine of that vulnerability study. overzealousness. - i also have the right to give you my opinion about what he s saying, which is, the man s a liar. - giuliani is a shameless publicity-seeker. giuliani possesses an abundant arrogance that makes him temperamentally unfit to govern new york city. - i m confident that my office can do anything. but that s probably one of my weaknesses. - many of the other parts cover him being sexist, anti-gay, ethnic vulnerabilities, as it s delicately put, and there s many more. - i happened to have been in the room when the vulnerability study was delivered to him. it was visceral, his reaction. i still remember his glasses perched on the tip of his nose as he stared down at it. and he didn t even look up. [chuckles] and that was that. - rudy giuliani is somebody who s talked a great deal about the straight and narrow,
- where are the cops? that s the question, among others, mayor giuliani vowed to find an answer to today. [applause] - he empowered the police. the police had felt unempowered under dinkins. here comes a guy who says, do your job. and i ll deal with the consequences. and i got your back. - i d like to introduce the new police commissioner of new york city, bill bratton. [applause] - [clears throat] early on in my career, i came to understand that what impacted on everybody was quality of life crime. - you deal with some of those things that used to be considered small things, so they don t become bigger. - like? - well, like squeegee operators, and excessive noise, and aggressive panhandling. - a lot of these crimes were described as victimless crimes. what was not recognized was, the victim was the city. - in the past two years, new york hired 5,000 new officers and put many of them on the street. - quality of life is key,