The legacy of Frank Rizzo is a mixed one.

He was the first Italian American mayor in Philadelphia, and the city's police commissioner before that. Under his watch as both commissioner and mayor in the 1960s and 1970s, gang violence and crime rates dropped.

But his methods were harsh and he targeted minority groups especially. As a police officer he was charged multiple times with beating crime suspects while they were in custody. The charges were consistently dismissed.

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