Giuliani spoke up to commend the community for helping the police, the emergency health workers, and each other. It was one of his finest moments. If that Giuliani reappears, he will not only be a formidable force for his detractors to contend with, the mayor will also make it much, much easier to create an atmosphere in which New Yorkers can actually assess the overall quality of the work done by its police force. In 1999, there were 356, down by two-thirds. That doesn't make any act of excessive police force or obnoxiousness less than what it is, but it sure proves that there is more to say about the NYPD than what our professional rabble rousers like to talk about.
Salon regrets the error.
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