that is why some people have an absence of confidence in the police department. - the reason the morale of the police department is so low is one reason and one reason alone, david dinkins. - in some ways, it was easy to blame david dinkins for things that were not his fault, and along comes giuliani with his pro-cop stance. there was an audience for this sort of message, as there often is. - today the new york police are being told to take a very different tack, to clean up the neighborhood aggressively, to visibly improve the quality of life as a first step in crime reduction. - it's the broken windows theory, this idea that there were small quality-of-life crimes, and if you could stop that, you would set up a very peaceful and orderly society, and that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionately targeted young black men as potential criminals.