the giuliani and dinkins thing all over again. >> if it is a rerun of the giuliani and dinkins years, i hope it's '89, when i won. tavis: all jokes aside, going through the text, i have been honored and blessed to have .nown you there is a rub that is often associated with you. crime was out of control, racism was out of control. i got the sense that whatever you did right, you did not get the credit for it. >> >> that is one of the reasons that we did this book. i assumed office in january the first of 1990. the way some people write about it, you would think there was no when ed koch was mayor. was rampant crime during those years and there are a lot of reasons for it. but what we did was to turn to what you call community policing. get cops out of their patrol cars and onto the street. and it worked well. the current police commissioner of new york was the first deputy police commissioner for the first year or so of my administration. i appointed him police windley brown had to step down because his wife was ill. they did every job from cadet to commissioner. he is a colonel in the

tonight, a conversation with david dinkins, the former mayor of new york city who has put down what he has learned in more than five decades in a new text called "a mayor's life." we are glad you have joined us with former mayor david dinkins coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: being the mayor of new york is called the second most difficult job in america. he just chronicled his life and times governing new york's gorgeous mosaic. i'd add you back on the program, sir. glad to have you back on the program, sir. we will get straight to the text. there is a major race happening in the city of new york. michael bloomberg got the city council to give him a third term. herself in terms of being the next mayor, but one of those finalists got his start working for you. tell me you have endorsed and take it away. >> i endorse bill thompson, the past controller. mike bloomberg did pretty well. lost by four or five points. but the mayor spent over $100 million. billorsed him again, but one. he worked in our office in city hall

. >> dinkins took over at a tough time.e northeast particularly hard. it drained revenue the city couldn't afford to lose. the new york of that era was ravaged by the violent crime, cracks epidemic and aids crisis and mounting racial tensions, there were progress, in the end, crime was falk. it's kept falk two decades since then, there was a reduction in homelessness, there was new economic investment t. deep racial and ethnic cultural divisions that defined his path, made his path to re-election treacherous. dinkins lost against rudy guiliani in the rematch. >> that started a probable streak of non-mayors in new york. mayor dinkins is about to say things about his days at mayor and 1993 campaign he hasn't said before. he does it in his new book, it's called "a mayor's life," mayor dinkins joins us now on the set. your on nor, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i am curious t. last time when you were elected in known 89, it's amaze how much the world has changed, tlafls soviet union, larry byrd was playing for the c

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tonight, a conversation with david dinkins, the former mayor of new york city who has put down what he learned in more than five decades in a new text called "a mayor's life." we are glad you have joined us with former mayor david dinkins coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: being the mayor of new york is called the second most difficult job in america. he just chronicled his life and times governing new york's gorgeous mosaic. i'd add you back on the program, sir. glad to have you back on the program, sir. we will get straight to the text. there is a major race happening in the city of new york. michael bloomberg got the city council to give him a third term. herself in terms of being the next mayor, but one of those finalists got his start working for you. tell me you have endorsed and take it away. >> i endorse bill thompson, the past controller. mike bloomberg did pretty well. lost by four or five points. but the mayor spent over $100 million. billorsed him again, but one. he worked in our office in city hall and

officials in orlando say they saw nothing wrong with court papers ordering their release of joseph dinkinsinue scrambling to find both of the men. john miller spoke with the judge whose name was forged on those papers. john, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> very curious to hear what the judge had to say, but i really want to know why it took three weeks to discover that these guys were gone. >> it took three weeks because most prison escapes are discovered right away. but these guys hadn't -- they have tricked the system. what they did was they put in very convincing looking legal documents and you know the prison is a bureaucracy like any other part of government. to make something happen you need a piece of paper. the piece of paper looks real things happen. they put them into effect. here's how they found out. being a bureaucracy, they then went on to the next part of procedure, which is that they have an early release of a prisoner, they have to call the victims' family or the victims in the case and say, this guy got early release. you need to know that. then the victim's fami