[madison10]

Give them a trophy.

BTW, that boast cannot be true.

[Jeff Chandler]

that boast cannot be true

That doesn't matter. What matters is if Americans believe it.

[lepton]

Given how many police officers they have, and how low Giuliani’s Administration and even Bloomberg’s had driven violent crime, it is still probably true, despite having risen dramatically the past few years - while their competition also had crime rise radically.