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Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend

by Exile on Ericsson St. on July 11, 2007 @ 8:22 pm · Filed under Federal Races, News

It looks like some of the real heroes of 9/11 are not too impressed with the pretend hero of 9/11. Here’s an excerpt from the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters:

What Giuliani showed following 9/11 is a disgraceful lack of respect for the fallen and those brothers still searching for them. He valued the money and gold and wanted the [World Trade Center] site cleared before he left office at the end of 2001 more than he valued the lives and memories of those lost.”

– IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger

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Comment by Sahar Massachi
2007-07-12 00:54:39

I have a big post about this coming up soon, but speaking of Giuliani as a fraud:

“Rudy Giuliani never misses an opportunity to remind people about his track record in fighting crime as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

“I began with the city that was the crime capital of America,” Giuliani, now a candidate for president, recently told Fox’s Chris Wallace. “When I left, it was the safest large city in America. I reduced homicides by 67 percent. I reduced overall crime by 57 percent.”

Although crime did fall dramatically in New York during Giuliani’s tenure, a broad range of scientific research has emerged in recent years to show that the mayor deserves only a fraction of the credit that he claims. The most compelling information has come from an economist in Fairfax who has argued in a series of little-noticed papers that the “New York miracle” was caused by local and federal efforts decades earlier to reduce lead poisoning.

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Comment by Sahar Massachi
2007-07-12 00:57:04

and then:

Two new studies by criminologists Richard Rosenfeld and Steven F. Messner have looked at Giuliani’s policing policies. They found that the mayor’s zero-tolerance approach to crime was responsible for 10 percent, maybe 20 percent, at most, of the decline in violent crime in New York City.

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