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 success story. giuliani obviously revels in it you know, credit for beginning to turn around the city. but it was never enough credit. giuliani wanted all spotlight focused on him. okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. together we support immune function. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health.
and that the election was stolen. that was as flimsy as dealing with me. - perception being reality was that there s a new sheriff in town. and the murder rate was 2,000. that was an easy thing to focus on. and that was his strength, you know, crime fighting. - tonight, mayor giuliani wants to revamp the community policing program. - 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,
- these cops, you know, felt that they were given the authority to do anything that they wanted. they terrorized african american communities. rudy giuliani says, look, they re doing a good job. they re bringing crime down. and that s what we want. it s working. but it wasn t. it was working against the very people who you claim to want to help. we saw it as an invading force. they were brutal. - it was a disaster waiting to happen. - the death of amadou diallo is the latest in a series of recent incidents that has new york city s police department in the hot seat. - the officers see this young black man standing in front of his doorway. and he fits a description, apparently, of a suspect in another case. they get out of the car. he begins to turn. - amadou diallo is reaching for his wallet that s mistaken for a gun. - to me, what s most important, was what those men were thinking
it became clear that she s really not appearing anywhere with him. - say good morning to the mayor. - for his reelection bid, donna hanover wasn t really in his corner. she wouldn t reveal who she voted for. - in the first term, rudy burns through a lot of friends and allies. - in new york city, mayor rudolph giuliani easily won reelection 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,
republican rudolph giuliani. [tense music] - in city hall, there was a space in the bowels of that ancient building that came to be known as the lair. that s where the cigars would be smoked. and that s where giuliani s inner circle would watch the godfather over and over. [chuckles] and over again. - godfather. - rudy is famously obsessed with the godfather. - rudy giuliani is a little bit of everybody in that film. one night, he had a showing of the godfather. and he sits behind me, and during the entire movie, he explains why the life of politics is exactly the life of the godfather. and, of course, in the one story where sonny complains to the godfather that they should be selling drugs, and you see this battle within the family,