Giuliani doesn't need to exagerate

What's up with this? His actual record is pretty impressive. Why is he taking credit for things he didn't do when, frankly, increasing the police force by 10% while consolidating the three agencies to improve costs is impressive enough?

Cop-Counting Cop-Out
Giuliani's wrong when he claims to have added 12,000 new NYC cops while he was major.
Fact Check.org

On his Web site, Rudy Giuliani claims that he grew New York City's police force by 12,000 officers between his inauguration as mayor in January 1994 and mid-2000. That's just not true. Most of the cops he's counting - 7,100 to be exact - were already housing or transit police who were simply folded into the New York Police Department. The merger of the departments didn't decrease the number of police in the city at all.

The actual increase in the size of the force was about 3,600, or about 10 percent, during the period Giuliani pinpoints. And Giuliani doesn't mention that the cost of hiring about 3,500 of the officers was partially covered by the federal government under President Bill Clinton.

On another matter, we question Giuliani's claim that on Sept. 11, 2001, he had a new command center "up and running within half an hour" of being forced to evacuate his primary center near the World Trade Center. In his 2002 book, "Leadership," he says that "we arrived about noon" at the backup site, which was two-and-a-half hours after the evacuation.