claim: "the crime decline in the united states would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in new york city."
author: rudy giuliani
evidence_1: sep 1, 2007 ... the brash-talking former mayor, the candidate vying for the title of real law-and- order star, has made it a centerpiece of his campaign: under his leadership, new  york city ascended from crime capital to america's safest big city. at campaign  stops, in interviews and in speeches, giuliani, a top republican ...
evidence_2: feb 11, 2016 ... so too, tolerance of small crimes would create a vicious cycle ending with entire  neighborhoods turning into war zones. but if you cracked down on ... in 1996, the  new york times reported that crime had plunged for the third straight year, the  sharpest drop since the end of prohibition. since 1993, rape rates ...
evidence_3: "what they will do is socialized medicine." — politifact national on tuesday,  september 18th, 2007. false. sorry, new york is not that big. rudy giuliani · "the  crime decline in the united states would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime  decline in new york city." — politifact national on saturday, september 1st,  2007.
evidence_4: nov 19, 2011 ... salon spoke to zimring over the phone about giuliani's crackdown, the unique  nature of new york violent crime and what other cities can take away from this  change. how unexpected was new york's decrease in crime over the last  decade? what happened in the united states during the 1990s was itself a ...
evidence_5: it wasn't always so. when i first came to this city in 1990, as chief of the new york  city transit police, the subways were a symbol of new york for a different reason . .... in-state peers. the frequent argument that new york city's crime decline was  or is no greater than the regional or national decline is patently untrue.