and now a lot more people can. so let s go. the digital age is waiting. [tense music] - the city of new york became the safest big city in america. - as time goes by, the kind of obsession with metrics becomes a problem. - mayor giuliani said, i want those numbers lower. i want them lower and lower. - the strong drop in crime fed the accusation that his police force was too aggressive. - the streets are safer. but the cost was having a police department that started to act as an occupying army. - for rudy, what quality of life meant was quality of white life. - some of the things that i ve done
constant nurturing from the women in his life. - i think rudy s choice of women shows an interesting paradox in his character. it must be said, he really as always gone for smart, accomplished, relatively hard-driving women. but they then have to make their life all about rudy. i think in his personal life as in his professional life, he is the king. and if you don t want to be a courtier, don t let the scepter hit you on the way out. - some voters wondered whether he had a heart. they believed that he had conviction. but they wondered whether he had compassion. - so he retooled his image. he was no longer the u.s. attorney. he was a guy named rudy who came from brooklyn.
but they wondered whether he had compassion. - so he retooled his image. he was no longer the u.s. attorney. he was a guy named rudy who came from brooklyn. - he was humble and drank diet coke and ate pizza. - i also had to learn to release more of myself. - yeah. - i was a pretty private person. even though i was a u.s. attorney, only a certain segment of your life is covered. you have to learn how to show some emotion and release it to people. - be real. - and let them know how much you care. - it worked, and it softened his image. he s a family man. - donna hanover was rudolph giuliani s second wife. - we met when i was associate attorney general and she was anchoring the news in miami. - donna had a major role in that campaign. - the message tonight is a lot of thinking women have decided to vote for giuliani. and we want other concerned women to think about it too. - she was very, very media savvy in her own right. - this is the kind of man i want to be the father of my childr
such a rallying point, a kind of symbol, immediately, for so much of the city. those 41 bullets became such a bright sign of how things were off the rails in terms of the relationship between the nypd and the community it served. - in the new york times cbs poll, 47% of new yorkers say the mayor s policies have led to an increase in police brutality. - rudy is not a man who says he does wrong. as far as rudy s concerned, he just keeps on going. - rudy was an opportunist, but rudy s ambition was always there. his need to prove himself was very great. - rudy saw the end of the mayoralty in the future. he saw it coming. and he didn t like it. - he had to figure out, what s the next gig?
that go way back in his life to high school. and so that would include peter powers. - peter was one of the few people who could take rudy aside and say, no, that s a bad idea. you ought to do this. he got rudy focused. and he got him away from the distractions that often occurred. - so part of that godfather mindset was loyalty. rudy enormously valued loyalty to him. and so getting rid of people was pretty natural. - we were getting extraordinarily positive press. but this is a mayor who, for reelection purposes, as well as whatever his post new york mayoral goals might have been, it was incredibly important to him that he get the credit for it. and that s where we began to butt heads. - after a while, bratton was getting too much credit. [dramatic music]