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Article: Can Giuliani clean up Mexico City? Residents doubt former New York mayor can fight crime.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2002
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Byline: Ken Bensinger, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
MEXICO CITY - The biggest city in the West is anxiously waiting for the new sheriff to come to town.
And waiting.
More than two months ago, Mexico City, with more than 20-plus million people the hemisphere's largest city, hired Rudolph W. Giuliani, New York's former mayor, to clean up crime and police corruption.
For $4.3 million, Mr. Giuliani and his consulting firm, the Giuliani Group, would bring to Mexico City his "zero-tolerance" policy, in which all crimes, even minor ones, are prosecuted.
The strategy led to a two-thirds reduction in crime in New York City from ...