times, he worked for you, others hung out with mr. giuliani. the giuliani and dinkins thing all over again. >> if it is a rerun of the giuliani and dinkins years, i hope it's '89, when i won. tavis: all jokes aside, going through the text, i have been honored and blessed to have .nown you there is a rub that is often associated with you. crime was out of control, racism was out of control. i got the sense that whatever you did right, you did not get the credit for it. >> >> that is one of the reasons that we did this book. i assumed office in january the first of 1990. the way some people write about it, you would think there was no when ed koch was mayor. was rampant crime during those years and there are a lot of reasons for it. but what we did was to turn to what you call community policing. get cops out of their patrol cars and onto the street. and it worked well. the current police commissioner of new york was the first deputy police commissioner for the first year or so of my administration. i appointed him police windley brown had to ste