rudolph giuliani has countered the outrage with carefully selected statistics... - shots fired by police officers has decreased by 50%. - and steadfast support for the nypd. - the new york city police department is the most restrained. substantially more restrained. it's among the most restrained police departments in the country. - many people thought even though times had progressed, in other ways, some of the images were not that much different than images people might've associated with the '50s and '60s. - we thought maybe we'd gotten past all this stuff, but it keeps happening, and it was a reminder that while the '90s represented so much growth, so much progress, we still had so much further to go. - in every society, there is a fragile balance between order and freedom. in new york these days, a number of blacks and hispanics in particular feel that it's their freedom which has been sacrificed to achieve order. they are the ones being stopped, frisked, sometimes harassed, for no other reason