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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.

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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.

“I promised to fix it and we have,” the mayor added.

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Wednesday’s slaying of Majors has returned crime to the front
and center of local politics.

“The idea that a college freshman at Barnard was murdered in
cold blood is absolutely, not only painful to me as a parent,
it’s terrifying to think that that could happen anywhere,” de
Blasio said after an unrelated event in Brooklyn, according to
the New York Daily News.

The young woman was a member of a band called Patient 0, and had
two concerts scheduled for her hometown of Charlottesville, Va.,
during what was to be her upcoming winter break, the New York
Post reported.

As of Friday morning, there was still no information regarding
arrests of her alleged attackers – or information about their
identities. Two teens were questioned but released, the Daily
News reported.

“There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done,” NYPD Chief
of Detectives Rodney Harrison told the Daily News. “We’re going
to need the community to help us with this investigation.”

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-students-murder-stems-from- liberals-reversal-of-rudy-giulianis-anti-crime-policies-ex-
police-chief-says

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