Giuliani ran NYC pretty damn well. During his tenure and that of Bloomberg it became one of the safest major cities in the country. It decayed back to the Dinkins days as soon as De Blasio took over.
They did get tough on crime. The guys who would squeegy your car on the corner and then damage your car if you didn't give them money, those guys were run off. I wonder where they went?
It was funny when Bloomberg said he was going to run as a Democrat, the first thing Trump brought up was Stop and Frisk. LOL. As if he objected to the practice.
But Trump knew Stop and Frisk would not make him popular running as a Democrat.
So there is some truth to what you are saying. Republicans would get tougher on crime. Even go so far as to pass a controversial policy like stop and frisk
In Floyd v. City of New York, decided on August 12, 2013, US District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that
stop-and-frisk had been used in an unconstitutional manner and directed the police to adopt a written policy to specify where such stops are authorized.
The practice is not unconstitutional, but a judge ruled in 2013 that New York City’s stop-and-frisk program was carried out in a manner that violated the U.S. Constitution.
city police violated the U.S. Constitution in the way that it carried out its stop-and-frisk program, calling it “a form of racial profiling” of young black and Hispanic men.
“Terry stops,” referring to
Terry v. Ohio, in which the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968 ruled that a police officer can stop and frisk individuals where there is a reasonable basis for suspicion.)
So Rudy was effective but was violating the constitution.
In the executive summary of her opinion, Scheindlin wrote that there were 4.4 million stops made by New York City police between January 2004 and June 2012, and 83 percent of them were made of blacks and Hispanics — even though those racial groups represented 52 percent of the city’s population in 2010.
During trial, 12 plaintiffs testified about 19 of those stops and the judge said she found that 14 of the 19 stops constituted an unconstitutional stop or unconstitutional frisk.
So it may be easier to lower crime rates when you don't worry about breaking laws or violating rights.