Bill Clinton deserves a lot of credit for helping to reduce crime
No. Crime rates had already been slowing falling for a couple years before he took office and the "solution" he came up with was not worth it any perceived "benefit" that came.
Bill Clinton takes a lot of heat for his tough on crime stances. But by implementing those measures during the drastic falling of the crime rates in the 90's and early 2000's has lead to the crime issue being completely dead. Obama would not have been able to win in 1988 , the crime issue was a deeply racially tinged nasty issue below the surface then. By 2008, the racially tinged crime issue was dead, in part to Bill Clinton who had removed it as a issue in the 90's. I get the feeling that the average white suburbanite in the 1980's was terrified of black people raping and pillaging their homes and neighbourhoods.
