knothead wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/video/nypd-commissioner-ted-cruz-line-225854661.html
Bill Bratton rips Ted the Worm about his lack of knowledge and his irresponsible commentary . . . . . finally!
As you know, Rudy Giuliani took over the crime-ridden city of New York in January of 1994. Times Square was a sewer and the murder rate was among the highest in the nation.
Mayor Giuliani changed all that in eight short years.
Yes, inexplicably, Progressives intensely demand criminals have more work! Why? You'll have to ask them.
Ask them why they demand that these remarkable statistics be reversed, and they have been too.
The police measure that most consistently reduces crime is the arrest rate of those involved in crime, the study finds. Felony arrest rates (except for motor vehicle thefts) rose 50 to 70 percent in the 1990s. When arrests of burglars increased 10 percent, the number of burglaries fell 2.7 to 3.2 percent. When the arrest rate of robbers rose 10 percent, the number of robberies fell 5.7 to 5.9 percent. In the case of murder, the decline was 3.9 to 4 percent; in the case of assault, 2 to 2.4 percent; and for motor vehicle theft, 5 to 5.1 percent.
The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude. Between 1990 and 1999, homicide dropped 73 percent, burglary 66 percent, assault 40 percent, robbery 67 percent, and vehicle hoists 73 percent. The authors' model manages to explain between 33 and 86 percent of those declines.
-- David R. Francis
http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html
Mayor Giuliani also led New York through the 9/11/2001 act of war. Under Giuliani New York emergency departments had planned for and practiced responses to various major disasters. He would have been a great, great president.
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