Not sure I could even do 40% with Rudy. But I admire him for two things; his handling of September 11, and his clean-up of NYC in almost all areas from the hell-hole the Dinkins administration let flourish.
I had to check out that claim. Today, I made a graph, and from the statistics, the overall crime rate started dropping well before Giuliani took office. Yeah, the crime rate started it's decrease during the Dinkins administration, so rudy rode the wave, so to speak. Sure, give him credit for cleaning up the graffiti if you want, but he isn't the one who got the ball rolling on the crime rate decrease.