Rudy Giuliani Wednesday called on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to 'stop demeaning' the city's police department and to bring back police and programs that will turn around the growing violence in the city.
"I could turn this around in a month, one month, if you let me bring back the cops that I want and the programs that I want, all of which have been held constitutional by the Clinton Justice Department," the former mayor, who is now one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
De Blasio also has got to "stop saying things, that they're racist and that his son is afraid of them," Giuliani said of the mayor's actions against the police.
"The mayor has got to go into the communities and say, ‘The police are not your enemy, they’re your friends,’” Giuliani also said.
According to the New York City Police Department, 28 shooting incidents were reported between Friday and Sunday, including a one-year-old child who was killed during a family cookout in a park in Brooklyn.
The NYPD reports a year-over-year increase of 600 percent in shooting incidents and a 483 percent increase in shooting victims.
The police department disbanded its anticrime unit in June, reassigning hundreds of offices to other divisions. Giuliani pointed out Wednesday he started that unit, originally called the Street Crime Unit.
"They’re the people who straightened out Times Square for me, they’re the people who straightened out Harlem and Bedford–Stuyvesant (in Brooklyn), and their expertise was taking guns from people," said Giuliani. "Bad people don't control their guns so you have to devise a strategy to do it. We devised a strategy called stop, and frisk."
De Blasio also must get the trust of the police back, said Giuliani, who also said he won't try running for mayor of New York again but he feels he needs to "do something" to address the crime rate hikes, including speaking out.
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