Romney -- after days of squabbling -- also threw in the towel on
the crime issue, saying Rudy did a great job and he(Romney) really
wasn't all that responsible for crime. He said: "I think we all
recognize that the mayor did a wonderful job at reducing crime in
the City of New York. I'm not a mayor, I'm not running for a
mayor's job; I didn't have a police commissioner. But I did take
the actions that I could, as a state governor, to improve our state
police, to strengthen our state police, to be able to put in place
the DNA laboratory -- we more than tripled the size of our DNA
laboratory -- and did the things we could to improve crime -- our
crime enforcement. And I'm proud of the fact that we were able to
reduce crime during my tenure."