new york hired 5,000 new officers and put many of them on the street. - quality of life is key, and public safety is essential. if you get those things right as a city, a thousand things can go right. - every friday, we would meet for at least an hour. his whole life had been in the criminal justice world. he loved those friday meetings. - at this time, crime statistics came annually, which really isn't sort of remarkable, doesn't really help. and bratton says, "let's get daily crime statistics on what's going on." - what was it like on the 1-0-4 side? what kind of a week have you been having? - 16 robbery arrests so far last month. you look at the robberies, the majority occurring in the sector drawn. - we would bring police captains to meetings every week to hold them accountable for crime going up, going down. - for the record on that 73 precinct case, the crime scene was never notified. we'll hope that that gets corrected. - new york city has logged its biggest drop in violent crime, in nearly 1/4 century.