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To: Clam Digger
The big 50% drops in crime happened after Giuliani took office. Look at your own stats.

Giuliani took office in 1994. there were 2016 murders that year. Murder peaked in 1990 with 2605, in 1993 there were 2,420. that’s a prety minor drop and obviously a huge problem if over 2000 people are being killed each year.

By 1998 that number was down to 924. Now that is a major reduction. Across the board those numbers continued to drop in decreases. by 2000, the numbers were still dropping even as other cities were seeing an increase in crime again.

Dinkins did nothing to reduce crime, in fact his lackadaisical attitude on policing led to a general feeling that the entire city was rotting for the core. The police hated Dinkins. Google Crown Height riots, thats how dinkins handles crime.

Anyone who makes the claim Dinkins helped reduce crime in the city is smoking crack.

68 posted on 07/10/2007 7:36:57 AM PDT by finnman69 (May Paris Hilton's plane crash into Britney Spears house while Lindsey Lohan is over doing coke)
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To: finnman69
Dinkins did nothing to reduce crime,

Are you ignorant, or just a liar. Look at the stats. I don't like Dinkins, he was probably NYC's nadir, and think Rudy did a hell of a lot better job than anyone previous, but I won't use stats to lie like you are doing.

69 posted on 07/10/2007 7:40:33 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: finnman69
I think Al Sharpton is on the thread. Can you imagine anyone trying to make an argument that David Dinkins was a good Mayor. It is easy to be delusional especially if you did not live in the city during the horrific Dinkins years.
72 posted on 07/10/2007 8:45:30 AM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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