New York City’s crime rate has dipped considerably since the early 1990s, but Rudy Giuliani fears that the Democrats vying to become the Big Apple’s next mayor will upend that progress.
The former NYC mayor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate told the Washington Examiner’s Byron York in a piece published Tuesday that he “was elected for one reason, to reduce crime.” But Giuliani expressed dismay that the Democratic candidates largely oppose the city’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” practice, which started under his watch and has continued under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“That indicates to me that they have lost the public safety imperative that I had and that Mike had,” Giuliani said.
Read York’s entire interview with Giuliani here.
