GIULIANI SUPPORTED AN OUTSIDE MONITOR FOR NYPD IN 1993 In 1993, Giuliani Supported Reinstating The Office Of A Special State

Prosecutor To Investigate Police Corruption, And In 1994 He Agreed With A Special Commission That The NYPD Needed An Outside Monitor. During his first campaign for mayor in 1993, Giuliani supported reinstating the office of a special state prosecutor to investigate police corruption. That office was abolished in 1990 by then-New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and the state Legislature. In 1994, during his first year as mayor, Giuliani said he agreed with the findings of a special commission that the NYPD needed an outside monitor. At the time, he said he was leaning toward giving outside monitoring authority to the Department of Investigation. [Wall Street Journal, 3/28/13] 1993: Giuliani Said During The Mayoral Race That He Favored Re-Creating The Office Of A Special State Prosecutor To Investigate Police Corruption. Mr. Giuliani, a former Federal prosecutor who supervised many police and other corruption cases, said during the mayoral race that he favored re-creating the office of a special state prosecutor to investigate police corruption. The special prosecutors post, which was established in 1973 as a temporary office after a previous police corruption scandal, was abolished in 1990 by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the Legislature. [New York Times, 12/28/93] 1993: Giuliani Said He Supported An Outside Monitor Of The Police Department. The dramatic images created by officers telling of moonlighting as drug dealers and by Internal Affairs officials who seemed unable or unwilling to grasp the scope of the problem has created a crescendo in the move toward some form of external oversight, a kind of Big Brother to keep the department ever vigilant. Just about every law-enforcement official in town, including the Police Commissioner, has endorsed the idea. Both Mayor David N. Dinkins and his opponent, Rudolph W. Giuliani, support an outside monitor. [New York Times, 10/11/93] 1993: Giuliani Called A Proposal For An Independent Monitor A Halfway Step And Said He Still Favored A Special Prosecutor. After an 18-month inquiry, the commission recommended a dual approach to reforming the 30,000-member department, the nations largest municipal force. It called for the creation of an independent oversight agency, patterned after itself, to scrutinize the departments anticorruption investigations and for a vast overhaul of the departments internal programs for preventing and detecting misconduct. It was unclear yesterday whether the Mollen Commissions recommendations would ever be put into place. Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani said he still favored a special prosecutor to detect corruption and called the independent monitor a halfway step. [New York Times, 12/29/93] 1993: Giuliani Said A Special Prosecutor Would Have More Power To Fight Corruption, Than The Special Commissions Proposal For An Outside Monitor With Subpoena And Investigative Powers. Mr. Giuliani said he also supported the general concept of an outside monitor, but that he wanted it to take the form of a special prosecutor, who would have more power to fight corruption. The Mollen Commission proposed that an outside monitor be given subpoena and investigative powers, as well as access to police department corruption files, but that it not act as a prosecutor. In 1973 the Governor and the Legislature created the office of a special state prosecutor after a previous policecorruption scandal. It was financed by the state and abolished in 1990 as an unneeded tool by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and the Legislature. Mr. Mollen cautioned that a special prosecutor would rekindle jurisdictional problems and friction with the five district attorneys and two United States Attorneys in the city. He said the commission, in its final report, would consider the feasibility of authorizing the citys Department of Investigation to oversee police anti-corruption programs. Aides to Mr. Giuliani said he might support the Department of Investigation proposal if a special prosecutors office is unfeasible. [New York Times, 12/29/93]