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I lived there. Ask anyone who did live there, I don't care if they are liberal or conservative, nobody is going to deny that Rudy transformed that city. Not everybody liked his tactics, but nobody will deny that they were effective.
At the very least he made it clear and made an atmosphere that crime needs to back down. He would never bow to woke mobs, blm threats, or cries to defund. Just that alone builds an atmosphere. And when the place is cleaned up the stores and businesses move in and thrive.
The total opposite of Blasio. Midtown is getting trashed again. I live here. Since Covid many streets have turned into former shadows of themselves and the whackos filled the void. Hell's Kitchen going back to its namesake. Even Bloomberg carried over Law & Order to a degree and did a lot to build up businesses which in turn brought more safety. But this was before social media cults took over.
I think Rudy is just being judged by his recent Trump exploits and that has soured people who probably didn't really have an opinion on him. So now when they see him, they see 'Trump', and then retro actively denounce anything positive he has ever done.
I think Rudy is just being judged by his recent Trump exploits and that has soured people who probably didn't really have an opinion on him. So now when they see him, they see 'Trump', and then retro actively denounce anything positive he has ever done.
I think that is exactly what happened. He was liked by the mainstream for the longest time, until he aligned himself with Trump.
Then he became evil and they forgot about all those mob bosses he put behind bars as US attorney, and they started taking away credit for the way he cleaned up the city and handled 9/11.
Rudy was the right guy in the right place in NYC during the period following 9/11.
He retired and took his show onto the lucrative international speaker’s circuit, talking about how he cleaned up NYC. He never mentions that crime throughout the country substantially declined as the 90’s progressed. Strategy or lack thereof, made no difference.
The overall crime drop throughout the country does not explain the crime rate drop in NYC. In NYC, the crime rate was dropping faster than the national average. At one point, NYC even became one of the safest cities in the country. If cities like Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, etc had the same declines of crime as NYC in the 90s, they would have something like quadruple less murders than they do now.
The overall crime drop throughout the country does not explain the crime rate drop in NYC. In NYC, the crime rate was dropping faster than the national average. At one point, NYC even became one of the safest cities in the country. If cities like Chicago, Philly, Baltimore, etc had the same declines of crime as NYC in the 90s, they would have something like quadruple less murders than they do now.
One of the best things Rudy did was bringing Bill Bratton on board, first in the Transit Police and then with the NYPD, bringing actual community-based policing with data-driven policy.
A small group of just 10 career criminals was allowed to run amok across the Big Apple and rack up nearly 500 arrests after New York enacted its controversial bail reform law — and most of them are still out on the streets, The Post has learned.
Stunning statistics compiled by the NYPD, and obtained first by The Post, show that the city’s alleged “worst of the worst” repeat offenders have been busted a total of 485 times since bail reform went into effect in 2020.
Two of the defendants are actually accused of embarking on lives of crime in the wake of bail reform, with one busted 33 times since 2020 and the other busted 22 times, all this year, the data shows.
He has very good grounds for a lawsuit against McDonalds. This could have all been avoided had they provided an adequate level of service. Call a witness that says some white guy ahead of him in line got the last hot fries and now you have justifiable homicide and a federal hate crime case against the guy that served them and the fry cook.
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