Name that mayor

The New York Times parodies itself:

Homicides [in New York City] began falling in the early 1990s, when Raymond W. Kelly first served as police commissioner, and plummeted further under subsequent commissioners. Mr. Kelly returned to serve under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2002, the first year there were fewer than 600 homicides. There were 587 that year, down from 649 in the previous year.

Tom Maguire:

Geez, I'm straining to remember who was Mayor when the murder rate plunged. They mention Blomberg, but I'm sure someone preceded him...^[1]

You know, if I wrote a story featuring a newspaper so partisan that it would go to similar lengths to avoid favorabe mention of a political opponent, editors would probably reject it as being totally divorced from reality.


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^[1] Maguire lists the figures in his post. Interestingly enough, although the murder rate began falling under Kelly, the two largest drops in the period 1990-1996 (385, 384) came in the first two years of “Mayor Whatzisname’s” first term, when William J. Bratton was police commissioner.

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