There were 673 murders in New York in 2000, the last year of Rudy Giuliani's reign.
There were 319 murders in New York last year.
There were 319 murders in New York last year.
This year, there's been a jump -- 235 murders in the first seven months. That's still way down from the Rudy era.
Also, Rudy is the genius who put the NYC emergency management center ... in the World Trade Center, after it had already been bombed once.
Of course, Rudy was in office through 2001. There were 649 murders that year, outside of the 9/11 attacks. That's still far higher than today.
