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- rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york citys race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black...

and rudy was very much cut from that cloth and made no bones about it. - but when he was a prosecutor he was smart, he was tough, he was creative. - he was a perfect match for new york city. he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york citys race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all o...

he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york citys race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both withi...

And that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. It was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. Quiet quiet rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. White power i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i he...

Who wanted to be thanked, and ignored the people who were booing. ♪ - hes driven by a desire to be worshipped. - id like to introduce the new police commissioner of new york city, bill bratton. - i came in with my eyes wide open on the police. i could do something about it because i believed that i had a formula to do something about it. - do you have any idea how many arrests we made on that other than the homicides? do we have any idea? - we said, "were gonna use statistical evidence." they ...

- we were able to turn the city crime around as we had done in the subways three years before. and through 2018, crime pretty much continued to go down in the city every year. - we had, just by the statistics, over 2,000 murders a year, from 1990 to 1993. for prospective, by the end of the 1990s, it was under 600 murders a year. - but the catalyst for it was the combination of rudy and dinkins. - present arms! - without the 6,000 police officers that dinkins had been able to successfully lobby i...

And through 2018, crime pretty much continued to go down in the city every year. - we had, just by the statistics, over 2,000 murders a year, from 1990 to 1993. for prospective, by the end of the 1990s, it was under 600 murders a year. - but the catalyst for it was the combination of rudy and dinkins. - present arms! - without the 6,000 police officers that dinkins had been able to successfully lobby in albany for, the speed with which you were able to begin turning around the crime situation wo...

- hes driven by a desire to be worshipped. - id like to introduce the new police commissioner of new york city, bill bratton. - i came in with my eyes wide open on the police. i could do something about it because i believed that i had a formula to do something about it. - do you have any idea how many arrests we made on that other than the homicides? do we have any idea? - we said, "were gonna use statistical evidence." they had this system called compstat that divided the city into little unit...

From literally breaking windows. - we were able to turn the city crime around as we had done in the subways three years before. and through 2018, crime pretty much continued to go down in the city every year. - we had, just by the statistics, over 2,000 murders a year, from 1990 to 1993. for prospective, by the end of the 1990s, it was under 600 murders a year. - but the catalyst for it was the combination of rudy and dinkins. - present arms! - without the 6,000 police officers that dinkins had ...

And we went to all the boroughs and thanked the people who wanted to be thanked, and ignored the people who were booing. ♪ - hes driven by a desire to be worshipped. - id like to introduce the new police commissioner of new york city, bill bratton. - i came in with my eyes wide open on the police. i could do something about it because i believed that i had a formula to do something about it. - do you have any idea how many arrests we made on that other than the homicides? do we have any idea? ...