Comments by "silat13" (@silat13) on "Libertarian: Aren't Democrats to Blame for Baltimore?" video.
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whyamimrpink78 That was some doublespeak bubba.
Hanging your hat on Rudy 911 Grifter is a loser.
FactCheck: NYC crime did drop, but others deserve credit too
Giuliani made a grandiose boast that he “brought down crime more than anyone in this country--maybe in the history of this country--while I was mayor of NYC.”
Crime certainly dropped dramatically during Giuliani’s tenure from 1993 to 2002. In fact, the city is still in the midst of a record-setting trend for consecutive years of declining violent crimes. However, it is a trend that actually started under Giuliani’s predecessor, David Dinkins, in 1990, when a high of 174,542 violent crimes were reported according to the FBI, and has continued under his successor, Mike Bloomberg. In 2006, a new low of 52,086 such crimes were reported.
The FBI itself warns against drawing broad conclusions (one might even say claiming undue credit) based on these statistics. The FBI website warns: “These rough rankings provide no insight into the numerous variables that mold crime in a particular city. Consequently they lead to simplistic and/or incomplete analyses that often create misleading perceptions.”
Source: FactCheck.org on 2007 GOP primary debate in Orlando , Oct 21, 2007
FactCheck: Hired 3,660 new cops, but took credit for 12,000
On his campaign Web site, Giuliani claims to have increased NYC’s police force by 12,000 officers--from 28,000 to 40,000--between 1/1/1994 & 2000.
The number Giuliani uses as his starting point in 1994 includes only NYPD officers. He doesn’t count transit police or housing police. But Giuliani DOES add the housing and transit police to his later tally--that added close to 7,100 officers to the NYPD’s rolls. It’s misleading for Giuliani to leave the transit and housing cops out of the starting count.
Even the figure Giuliani uses for the number of NYPD officers when he took office--28,000--is inaccurate. The NYPD numbered 29,450 when Giuliani took office. So we’re left with an increase of 3,660, or about 10%. That’s perfectly respectable, bu it’s not 12,000. Under the auspices of the Bill Clinton’s COPS program, NYC was given enough money to cover the first $25,000 of the salaries of about 3,500 new officers from 1997 to 2000 [i.e. almost all of the new NYPD hires were paid for federally].
Source: FactCheck.org: AdWatch of 2007 campaign websites , Oct 9, 2007
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http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html
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http://www.salon.com/2011/11/19/what_really_cleaned_up_new_york/
Do not you get tired of being the resident dipshit on YouTube?
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