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If you told San Francisco politicians that they should take lessons from Rudy Giuliani, they'd think you're nuts.
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Maybe even evil.
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They see him as quite likely the second most destructive politician in America, who peddled conspiracy theories, tried to stage a coup, and is finally getting his due comeuppance.
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But when Rudy Giuliani took over New York in 1994, it looked a lot like today's San Francisco.
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Or for that matter, Chicago, Baltimore, Portland, or a number of other cities as well.
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The fixes to these cities aren't state secrets.
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Giuliani took care of New York with some straightforward solutions that can be used today.
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First, let's take a quick look at San Francisco.
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Now, I live in the Bay Area, and when I mention that to some people, they're stunned, thinking that I live in some sort of third-world smoldering city.
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So let me be clear.
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If you've only seen San Francisco through news reports and crazy clips online, it's not as bad as you think.
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There are a whole lot of amazingly beautiful parts of town, and you'll find neighborhoods that are safe and clean.
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But big parts of it are actually hell holes, and everybody who lives here knows it.
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It's a mess.
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Mentally ill and drug addicted people have literally taken over chunks of the city.
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We have increasing violence, car break-ins, open-air drug dealing and shoplifting that's driving businesses right out of the city.
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It's left some areas as wastelands.
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And it's not just an eyesore, it's a human tragedy unfolding right before our eyes.
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Drug deaths have exploded and people with horrific problems are living like zombies on the streets.
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And the elephant in the room is that the government has no solution on the horizon.
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Its policies aren't simply failing, they're making things worse.
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Now I also lived in New York when it was in a doom loop of its own.
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The city was dystopian.
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Murder rates were astronomical.
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Times Square was more about prostitution and drugs than tourism.
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And no sane person would walk through Central Park after dark.
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Schools were dysfunctional and the government was broke.
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Mafia corruption was a real factor, and people cheered when vigilantes like Bernie Goetz shot muggers on a train, or the guardian angels patrolled streets.
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Like troubled cities today, it wasn't one problem, but a whole litany of problems.
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And in eight years as mayor, Rudy Giuliani turned all of that around.
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Violent crime dropped by over half.
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Robberies fell 67 percent.
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The number of yearly murders dropped from 2,000 in his first year to 649 in his last, literally saving thousands of lives over his tenure.
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Unemployment dropped from over 10% in 1993 to 5.6% in 2001.
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Welfare rolls dropped by half.
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School test scores went up.
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He inherited a city with a 2.3 billion dollar budget gap and left with a surplus.
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The city turned from an urban nightmare to a livable city and a tourist mecca.
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It was the absolute reverse of a doom loop.
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I saw it happen and I know it's possible.
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But the first step doesn't start at City Hall.
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It actually starts with voters.
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They need to get fed up and they need to vote that way.
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Politicians rarely push change on their own.
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It's hard work.
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So they're generally barometers of public sentiment.
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They don't lead the marching band, they see where it's going and they jump out in front of it.
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Now, people of San Francisco are generally very nice people, maybe too much so.
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That comes through in city politics, with their real concerns about things like poverty, minority rights, the rights of accused criminals and police brutality.
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Voters here don't want to criminalize poverty
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and they We support harm reduction strategies like cash and needle giveaways that other communities might call enabling.
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But values like safety and public order are increasing.
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Voters recalled Chaso Bodine, who was essentially a pro-criminal district attorney, but the vote was fairly close.
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He ended up with 45% of the vote.
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But as the situation continues to deteriorate here, and it will, voters will eventually be ready for radical change.
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In New York, that radical change was electing a Republican prosecutor who'd broken the mob
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and sent more than his fair share of Wall Street criminals to jail.
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His strategy to fix New York traces its roots to an Atlantic Magazine article in 1982.
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It was called Broken Windows by George Kelling and James Q.
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Wilson.
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Imagine a building where vandals have broken a window or two.
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If those windows go unrepaired, it won't be long before they're all broken.
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Then graffiti appears and soon the whole place turns into a mess.
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The theory argues that small signs of disorder send a message that neglect is acceptable.
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And that attracts more serious crime and bad behavior.
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By cracking down on these small offenses, a sense of order is set, creating an environment where lawlessness is the norm, not the exception.
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This idea fundamentally changes the approach to law enforcement, shifting focus from just reacting to major crimes to actively maintaining community standards.
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Before Giuliani was even elected, Bill Bratton had come in to lead the New York Transit Police and he used the broken windows approach.
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Small fixes like cleaning up graffiti and going after fair jumpers and vandals signaled that even minor offenses had consequences.
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The result was a drastic drop in serious subway crime as well.
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Soon after the election, Giuliani named Bratton as the police commissioner for the entire city.
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Their first target, the squeegee men.
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These were guys who'd come up to cars stopped at red lights and start cleaning the window, whether you wanted it or not.
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Then they demanded money, which was really closer to a shakedown.
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Now, people couldn't easily get away, and you worry about getting your car scratched up by this guy standing right outside.
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For commuters coming into New York, This was often the first person they encountered in the city.
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So police started arresting the squeegee men, who were then immediately released because there was no law against aggressive window cleaning.
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There was, however, a law against jaywalking, and the police started arresting them for that.
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And when they returned, they got arrested again until they literally were harassed out of traffic and disappeared from the city.
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On one hand, it was a trivial move, but it signaled to all New Yorkers that order was returning to the city.
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It also showed what would become a pattern to Rudy Giuliani, tenacity.
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He didn't hold a press conference and whine that his hands were tied unless the city council passed an anti squeegee law.
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He pushed through obstacles to get things done.
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And cities are filled with obstacles to change.
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Lifetime bureaucrats, powerful unions, wealthy special interests.
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It takes determination and a lot of stubbornness to make things happen.
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New York also did the opposite of defund the police, increasing the number of cops on the streets by a lot.
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By contrast, when it was trendy in 2020,
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the San Francisco mayor slashed $120 million from the police budget and redirected it to prioritizing investments in the African American community.
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In New York, there were more cops and they were empowered.
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They also used something called comp stat targeting to go after large and small crimes alike.
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Open air drug markets were shut down and with that, the violent crime that came with them.
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When they would make an arrest and find a guy with a gun on them, that was one less gun off the street and one less body off the street as well often.
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They took a tough stance on the homeless.
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You'd be arrested for public urination, or drinking, or aggressive panhandling.
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Giuliani literally harassed bad behavior off of the streets.
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And at the same time, the city increased shelter capacity and transitional housing.
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Beyond crime, the key word with the rest of the Giuliani reforms was accountability.
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City agencies were held responsible for results.
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School administrators and teachers were held accountable to quantifiable measurements.
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Welfare reform reduced dependency and encouraged self-sufficiency.
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But all throughout, Giuliani was criticized.
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A lot.
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He was slammed by homeless advocates for violating civil liberties or pushing the problem off to other cities.
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Critics argued that the police strategies unfairly targeted minorities and that the city criminalized poverty instead of addressing the systemic issues.
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His hard-edged style made him a lot of enemies.
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But when he was done, he transformed a city that people said was unmanageable.
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Can San Francisco and today's cities copy that success?
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I'm not really sure.
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I do know there's a blueprint from recent history that they should take a very strong look at.
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Thanks for watching.
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I hope you come back again.
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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição
Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “The unpopular idea that would save San Francisco”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Giuliani, Francisco, crime, San, window. Este vídeo tem 112 frases e 1461 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 7:36. O falante fala rápido, cerca de 192 palavras por minuto, então espere sons ligados e reduzidos. Apenas 79% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é exigente.
Vocabulário principal deste vídeo
As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:
| Palavra | Pronúncia | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| voter substantivo | /ˈvoʊtɚ/ | votante, eleitor |
| squeegee substantivo | /ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/ | rodo |
| politician substantivo | /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/ | político, política |
| criminalize verbo | criminalizar | |
| harass verbo | /həˈɹæs/ | assediar, incomodar |
| vandal substantivo | /ˈvændəl/ | vândalo |
| graffiti substantivo | /ɡɹəˈfi.ti/ | grafite, pichação |
| obstacle substantivo | /ˈɑbstəkəl/ | obstáculo, estorvo |
| astronomical adjetivo | /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/ | astronômico, astronómico |
| barometer substantivo | /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/ | barômetro, barómetro |
| blueprint substantivo | /ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/ | cianotipo |
| bureaucrat substantivo | /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/ | burocrata |
| deteriorate verbo | /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/ | deteriorar, piorar |
| dysfunctional adjetivo | disfuncional | |
| dystopian adjetivo | /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/ | distópico |
Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir
| Palavra | Significado |
|---|---|
| take over verbo | tomar posse de, apoderar-se de |
| clean up verbo | dar uma limpeza, limpar |
| come back verbo | voltar |
| go up verbo | subir |
| shut down verbo | apagar, encerrar |
Gramática neste vídeo
As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:
| Estrutura | No vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem faz | was called · is set · was even elected |
| Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agora | you've only seen · have exploded · have broken |
Pronúncia para ficar de olho
O falante usa 21 contrações e formas reduzidas, como they're, aren't, don't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.
- Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, shakedown /ˈʃeɪkdaʊn/, urination /jʊəɹɪˈneɪʃən/, transitional /tɹænˈzɪʃənəl/, prostitution /ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/
- Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, astronomical /ˌæs.tɹəˈnɑm.ɪ.kəl/, barometer /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, deteriorate /dɪˈtɪɹ.iə.ɹeɪt/, dystopian /dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
Como praticar com este vídeo
- Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
- Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
- Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como voter, squeegee, politician.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.