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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   This week’s shocking fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old Barnard   
   College student in New York City may have been prevented if   
   liberals now running the city’s government hadn’t begun   
   reversing former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s anti-crime policies, a   
   former city police commissioner says.   
      
   Bernard Kerik, an Army veteran who was head of the nation’s   
   largest police department when terrorists struck the World Trade   
   Center on 9/11, made the comment Thursday, in reaction to   
   Wednesday’s murder of Tessa Majors, a Virginia native who police   
   say was viciously beaten and stabbed by three or four attackers   
   in the early evening in a Manhattan park.   
      
   BARNARD COLLEGE STUDENTS 'APPREHENSIVE,' 'SHAKEN UP' AFTER   
   FRESHMAN, 18, STABBED TO DEATH NEARBY   
      
   The slaying startled and devastated residents of the surrounding   
   area in addition to Majors’ classmates at Barnard – a private   
   college for women -- and other nearby schools, including   
   Columbia University.   
      
   “The Murder of Barnard freshman Tessa Majors is the fault of   
   everyone of the city’s socialist leftist corrupt politicians   
   that’s been part of the reversal @RudyGiuliani’s crime reduction   
   initiatives started in 1994,” Bernard Kerik wrote.   
      
   Giuliani, who now serves as a personal attorney for President   
   Trump, was mayor of New York City from 1994 until his final term   
   expired at the end of 2001, just three months after the city’s   
   most horrible day. Even before 9/11 earned Giuliani the nickname   
   “America’s Mayor,” for the way he held the city together during   
   the initial, uncertain days after hijackers killed some 3,000   
   people, the former federal prosecutor was credited for bringing   
   a sharp reduction in crime to the Big Apple, reversing a safety   
   decline that had plagued the city in the 1970s and 1980s.   
      
   Most famously, Giuliani and former Police Commissioner Bill   
   Bratton implemented the “Broken Windows” approach to crime   
   reduction, in which police crackdowns on minor offenses were   
   believed to result in fewer major crimes as well. The plan   
   appeared to work – although critics disputed how much credit   
   Giuliani and Bratton, and successors Howard Safir and Kerik,   
   deserved.   
      
   Former police commissioner: People forget how effective stop-and-   
   frisk wasVideo   
   Since Giuliani left office, his successors have been billionaire   
   Michael Bloomberg, who served from January 2002 to December   
   2013, and Bill de Blasio, who took office Jan. 1, 2014, and   
   remains the city’s mayor.   
      
   Bloomberg, now 77, began his tenure as a Republican and later   
   became an independent. He has since switched to the Democratic   
   Party and recently launched a bid for the party’s 2020   
   presidential nomination. As part of that effort, Bloomberg in   
   November spoke at a Brooklyn church where he apologized for   
   implementing an anti-crime policy known as “stop and frisk,”   
   which had angered liberal activists who were concerned about the   
   civil rights of innocent people detained by police and the   
   general constitutionality of the policy.   
      
   “Over time I’ve come to understand something that I’ve long   
   struggled to admit to myself,” Bloomberg told congregants at the   
   Christian Cultural Center in the East New York neighborhood of   
   Brooklyn. “I got something important wrong. I got something   
   important really wrong.”   
      
   "Over time I’ve come to understand something that I’ve long   
   struggled to admit to myself. I got something important wrong. I   
   got something important really wrong."   
      
   — Michael Bloomberg, apologizing for 'stop and frisk' anti-crime   
   policy   
   Critics charged that Bloomberg seemed to be attempting to   
   ingratiate himself to the city’s Democrats, now that he was   
   seeking their votes after being a Republican for many years.   
      
   De Blasio, 58, an unabashed liberal, also made a run at the   
   White House earlier this year until ultimately dropping out. One   
   of his early moves since taking office was bringing back Bratton   
   – but the pair quickly made changes to scale back the stop-and-   
   frisk policy.   
      
   Darrin Porcher: Bloomberg's flip-flops call his leadership into   
   questionVideo   
   “When commissioner Bratton and I came in, we drove down the   
   unconstitutional stop-and-frisk deeply,” de Blasio told radio   
   station WNYC in 2016.   
      
   Around the same time, de Blasio also addressed the issue in a   
   fundraising email, Politico reported.   
      
   “Not many people know precisely how much we have reduced the use   
   of stop-and-frisk in New York City,” he wrote, before giving the   
   answer as 97 percent.   
      
      
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