Giuliani's claim to fame besides using 9/11 to advance politically is taking credit for what dinkins did to better the city...
Big facts!!
Jays Z Voice: Men lie, Women lie...Numbers don't lie.
"Take a look at the following chart, which I compiled from the FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, available here. It shows the violent crime rate for New York and three other large American cities over two decades. Contrary to Giuliani's repeated claims on the campaign trail, it is not the case that New York was the "crime capital of the country" prior to 1994, when he took office. Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston all had higher violent crime rates than New York in 1994. Los Angeles and Chicago had higher murder rates. (See second chart.)"
"Giuliani has elevated exaggeration to a new art form," said Ely Silverman, author of 'NYPD Battles Crime,' a standard academic account of the reasons for declining crime rates in New York. "There were other cities, such as Detroit, that had much higher crime rates."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/11/rudy_the_crime_buster.html