Rudy Giuliani Was Paid Millions To Make Mexico City Safer And It May Not Have Worked
Rudy Giuliani Was Paid Millions To Make Mexico City Safer And It May Not Have Worked
The top Trump adviser was hired by Mexico City’s government to make the city safer in 2002. People are torn over whether he succeeded.
posted on Nov. 17, 2016, at 11:12 a.m.
Karla Zabludovsky
BuzzFeed News Reporter
MEXICO CITY — Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a top confidante for US President-elect Donald Trump, was once paid to make Mexico City safe.
In 2002, Mexico City officials reportedly spent $4 million to hire the Giuliani Group, a consulting firm owned by Giuliani, to advise the government on how to reduce crime. The city was at the time reeling from an epidemic of kidnappings and homicides, rendering large areas of the capital impenetrable even by police. That led city officials to turn to the man who instituted programs in New York designed to put the “broken windows” theory of policing — that stopping small crimes helps bring down overall crime — into practice.
“The similarities between what Mexico City faces today and what New York City faced in the late 1980s and early 1990s are striking,” said Giuliani during a news conference in New York shortly after announcing the contract. Weeks later, Giuliani arrived here and, flanked by heavy security contingent, toured several crime-ridden neighborhoods. The firm produced a list of 146 recommendations for authorities.
Several former police chiefs at the time warned against comparing the security challenges the two cities faced and said Giuliani’s zero-tolerance strategy would at best address the consequences of a security crisis, not its roots.
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