This week, the candidates in October’s mayoral election explained how they would handle Edmonton’s crime problem if elected.

Fighting crime is probably more complicated now than it was when then-mayor Rudy Giuliani (before he seemingly stopped taking his meds and jumped on the Trump bandwagon) tackled crime in New York City in the mid-1990s.

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When Giuliani became mayor of NYC in 1994, his city had one of the highest murder rates in the United States, plus higher-than-average rates of other crimes such as muggings, robberies and property break-ins.

By the time he left office in 2001, his somewhat controversial “civic cleanup” had made New York one of the safest big cities in American — the same as Boise, Idaho, for murder, for instance.

His approach was fairly straigh

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