page_title: Rudy Giuliani
section_title: Mayoralty
hierarchical_section_title: Rudy Giuliani / Mayoralty
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of President William Jefferson Clinton Meeting with Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani in the Oval Office of the White House, 12/7/1993
context_page_description: Rudolph William Louis Giuliani KBE, is an American attorney and politician. He led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses, and led the city's civic cleanup as its mayor from 1994 to 2001. In 2017, US President Donald Trump appointed him cybersecurity advisor. In 2018, he joined Trump's personal legal team. Politically a Democrat and then Independent in the 1970s, Giuliani has been a Republican since the 1980s. The US Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983, he was the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. After a failed New York City Mayoral election campaign in 1989, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, holding a platform of toughness on crime.
  Mayor Giuliani appointed as New York City's new police commissioner an outsider, William Bratton. Reforming the police department's administration and policing practices, they applied the broken windows theory, which cites social disorder, like disrepair and vandalism, for attracting loitering addicts, panhandlers, and prostitutes, followed by serious and violent criminals.
context_section_description: Giuliani served as mayor of New York City from 1994 through 2001.
caption: Rudy Giuliani with President Bill Clinton in 1993
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