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April 13, 2021 - Rudy Giuliani
08:01
In NYC, Under Giuliani, Violent Crime Was REDUCED By 65% And Murder By 70%
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It's devastating.
I mean, they're actually committing murder by doing that.
The reality is the government of New York City is so incompetent, it's so left-wing, it's built on unrealistic theories of socialism that failed 100 years ago.
We have a mayor that there's something wrong with him.
He's almost acknowledged to be the worst mayor in America, which is really hard because we've got some pretty bad mayors in America.
In Democrat cities, crime is out of control.
Now, the population has to embrace this.
They just reflexively vote Democrat, let's say, in Chicago.
And every weekend in Chicago, it's a good weekend if only 10 people get killed.
You could have 20 or 30.
And this has been going on for 30 years.
Well, it makes no sense.
I mean, you're going to now give people the opportunity to sue police officers, and you don't necessarily have to do anything wrong to be sued.
You certainly don't have to do anything wrong to have your reputation tarnished.
Of course not.
Isn't that going to increase what's called de-policing across the city for the officers that are, frankly, brave enough to stay on the job?
100% and in a massive way.
I came from a family of police officers.
And I was a prosecutor for 17 years before I was mayor.
So I think there's nobody that knows the police in politics better than I do.
And I reduce crime more than any mayor in the history of the United States, by far.
And I can tell you, except for the really heroic police officers, when you do this to them, When you put their lives in jeopardy, when you put their families in jeopardy of not having enough money to feed them or getting out of their job, when they get a call for a robbery, they delay.
They wait until the robbery is over.
And then they go and just collect the bodies or write up the reports.
When I was the mayor and I had Bratton and Safer and Carrick, who were tough police commissioners, we made them proactive.
I wanted him to go into that robbery before it was completed and arrest the robber, or if he had to, shoot him.
And if there was any garbage about it, I'd back the police officer.
That's right.
They knew that the mayor would be there with them.
The mayor wasn't going to throw them under the bus.
The mayor was going to stand there with them, and Al Sharpton could yell and scream all he wanted, and Jesse Jackson could come and get arrested.
After all, When the people of my city, including the African-American people, are calling for somebody to save their lives, they don't call Jesse Jackson.
And they don't call Al Sharpton.
In those days, he'd been too fat to cop.
Instead, they call police officers.
These people are such racial hucksters, it's disgusting.
Mayor, you make a very important point, and that is that these types of policies are going to hurt, they're going to lead to more murder, more shootings, in the communities of color that the Democrat Socialists claim to care about.
Tom, they killed their own people.
They kill their own people with their policies.
Yeah.
So you get 70% of the murders in New York City to 75% and 70% of the victims in New York City are African-American.
So just figure if you increase murder by 100, you got 70 more African-American people dead.
That's true in Chicago.
It's true in Atlanta.
It's true every place I can tell you.
Black, white people murdered 8 to 10%.
Right.
So when we're talking about murder and stopping murder, we're talking about saving lives in the black community.
When we're talking about stupid policies that increase murder, we're talking about killing people in the black communities.
So don't tell me that Black Lives Matter gives a damn, and don't tell me that Sharpton or Jackson or any of them give a damn.
Otherwise, they'd be supporting pro-police policies that save the lives of their people.
I saved more black lives in New York City than any mayor in American history by reducing murder.
Hundreds, maybe well over a thousand black lives that would have been lost had I kept the murder rate where it was and what I inherited from my incompetent Democratic predecessors.
You look at a Democrat city and you see a lot of black people dying that don't have to die.
And at some day, They're going to make the connection.
At least the present Democrat, who's got all these crazy left-wing ideas in his head, should not be running cities.
They're too dangerous.
Their ideas are too unrealistic.
Their ideas sacrifice lives on the altar of a failed ideology.
We can go through Chicago, Detroit.
Atlanta, Baltimore, 50 years.
50 years of incompetent and in some cases crooked Democrats.
Philadelphia.
There's one city in America where every other mayor goes to jail.
I think they skip one because the jails get too filled with mayors.
Mr. Mayor, the bill also restricts recruitment of new police officers to only city residents.
I'm not sure how you're going to be able to staff a 30,000 officer department in the city of New York with a policy like this.
Police officers don't get paid enough to afford to live in New York City by and large.
That's why you have to do that.
You lose a lot of very good people because the rents, much less buying something in New York, people listening to this in other parts of America would have no idea how expensive it is.
So if you want to have a really good candidate pool, you've got to allow people who live in the suburbs where it's less expensive to be part of that pool.
Mr. Mayor, I think there are a lot of people in suburbs around the country who are asking themselves how this type of a policy shift will impact them.
A lot of people, they may say, look, you know, Minneapolis, yeah, they've got their problems in Portland and Seattle and Chicago, but I have my leafy, you know, front yard and my white picket fence and I'm not in the middle of that mess.
But doesn't a policy like this have a spillover effect into suburban communities as well?
Eventually, yes.
I mean, the last time crime went up in New York, it stayed up for 35 years.
Took 35 years, all through Democrat-Mayor after Democrat-Mayor.
And it also helped to ignite a crime wave all throughout America.
Remember, in the 1980s, America was suffering a violent crime problem, including in the suburbs and the rural areas.
And now, with the drug problem in the rural areas, They can't just say, oh, crime is a city problem.
You go to New Hampshire, you go to Tennessee, Kentucky, you go into the rural areas there, you got a big meth problem, you have a fentanyl problem.
They're one of the prime areas for that.
So crime is no longer just isolated to the cities.
And maybe it takes a while, but there's a spillover effect.
So what happens in New York, Honestly, it affects the rest of the country because it's the biggest city.
It's the communications capital of the country.
And for good or bad, it gets copied.
So New York, crime went up 1960s.
We went over a thousand murders.
We didn't get below a thousand murders for 35 years.
35 years!
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