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Mayor Bill de Blasio took some heat from one of his famous predecessors over his handling of crime in the city — with Rudy Giuliani saying he is badgered on the streets by New Yorkers begging him to run again for his old office.

“I can’t walk the streets … with[out] people coming up to me and saying, ‘You got to run again, you got to run again, you got to run. This guy’s terrible,'” Giuliani told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Giuliani, who currently serves as President Trump’s personal attorney, made the remarks while talking about his two successors’ handling of crime reduction, specifically the state’s new bail reform laws — some of which the current mayor has criticized.

“I don’t know how to say it to you, other than my heart is breaking for the city that I worked so hard to turn around,” Giuliani said of the new policies.

“Mike Bloomberg held it together. Well, I know [I’ve got] a lot of differences with him on running for president, but Mike Bloomberg kept it safe, for which I always appreciated. And this guy is a total disaster,” Giuliani added of de Blasio.

The former mayor went on to decry Hizzoner as a “typical Democratic mayor,” and pointed to his inability to reduce crime.

(From left) Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Bill de BlasioAFP via Getty Images(From left) Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and Bill de BlasioAFP via Getty Images

“I took over a city that was governed by Democrats forever and ever, and they had 2,200 murders a year, and I left the city with 500 murders. And Bloomberg got it down to 300 murders.”

The bail reform law, which has sparked new debate about the state’s criminal justice system, allows for the automatic, pre-trial release for suspects accused of most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies.

While de Blasio has publicly supported the concept of bail reform, he has also said judges should be allowed “to determine if someone poses a threat to the surrounding community” and should have “the power to act on that” when setting bail.

In January, Giuliani slammed his progressive successor for the bail reform’s rocky rollout, despite the fact that the measure was passed by state, not city, lawmakers.

“The ridiculous way about it is … the way de Blasio did this is everybody gets bail who is non-violent,” Giuliani told John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York.

Giuliani said in that interview that while bail reform was needed, it should not have been done the way it was.

“Bail should be reformed in the sense of, we should remove the few abuses that take place when people are held on too high of bail when it really isn’t a serious crime,” he said.

A spokeswoman for de Blasio said in a statement, “The facts are simple: under Mayor de Blasio, the crime rate is dramatically lower in New York City than during Giuliani’s tenure.”

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