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Dinkins did nothing to reverse the trend, and in 1993, four prominent Democrats, including Koch and Robert Wagner Jr. (son of the former mayor), abandoned Dinkins in favor of Giuliani.
Also, although Giuliani and Bratton got credit for eliminating squeegeeing, it was Ray Kelly, Dinkins' last police commissioner, who brought me in to lead the problem-solving exercise that figured out how to do it.
Crime, and a broad sense of civic disorder, probably had more to do with Dinkins' defeat than spending did.
Reformers such as Harvey Robins, a former top Dinkins aide, and Ray Horton, an independent budget monitor, have been arguing that the city could save billions of dollars by targeting long-standing perquisites--such as the endless array of paid holidays for city workers or large amounts of down time for cops and teachers--then investing the savings in parks and libraries and in restoring the city's neglected neighborhoods.
But Messinger, like Dinkins, cannot find a way of sounding convincing when she deplores crime--she has spent too many years thinking about it as a civil-rights and civil-liberties issue.