Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani stated that he was keen to use statistics to solve national crime problems if he is chosen as the president. In recent debates, he repeatedly cited the word ’stat’ - short term for statistics - as an effective weapon that he will use to lower the increasing crime rate in USA. Two examples of the crime are illegal immigration and port security.

This strategy has been proven effective as during his reign as mayor of New York in the 1990s, crime rate was cut by a half and murders dropped by two-third. Furthermore, he attributes this to the strategy he adopted by using maps and charts so that police will feel more responsible as they are the only group of people capable of stopping criminals from perpetrating their malevolent acts. This program had then been known as CompStat - acronym for Computerized Statistics - and copied by many other states to reduce crime rates.

There are three more programs that he will introduce if elected president, which are Border-stat, Terror-stat and Iraq-stat. Border-stat will manage all data about illegal immigration, Terror-stat aims to maintain homeland security, while Iraq-stat will display the rate of improvement on Iraq’s internal condition, such as the building of infrastructure and how many children are able to go to school.