under the brooklyn bridge with flashing red lights and police cars. the front-page cover was, "finally, we're winning the war on crime. here's why." - rudy was his boss. there was plenty of credit to go around, except that there wasn't. - well, that was the end for him. i mean, he was fired, i think, within a number of months. i don't think he lasted 90 days after that cover came out. - i just met with the mayor, mayor giuliani, this morning and have given to him my letter of resignation as the police commissioner for the city of new york. - it happened yesterday. he resigned. now, we're moving on. and i've said everything i wanna say about it. - mr. mayor, what about the police department? - this department is in terrific shape. - the person who was the architect of this new approach was now gone, and the people who inherited the machinery thought they understood it. but it wasn't clear that they did. this was gonna be rudy's department. and the good work that the department was doing was gonna be something that rudy took credit for, and rudy alone. - just kind of like fredo, he wanted to prove