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 would not have happened that quickly, and maybe might not have happened at all. - when bratton was riding high and everything's going great, except rudy did not wanna share the credit. and when bratton appeared on the cover that "time magazine" piece about, you know, america's policing and what's happening now, and he's posed in the story as the big hero-- ay yi yi. - i was pictured wearing a trench coat