Was the City Run More Efficiently Before Home Rule?

i was raised in what was british guiana, and is now guiana. There's always the same question about whether or not the country was run more efficiently when the british ran it,. o now after independence, when we run it. And that's comparable to the situation in d c. Was the city run more efficient when it was controlled by the federal government, or is it run more efficiently now? Well, during the time when i first got here, in the late 19 sixtie, it was run fairly efficiency. But i happen to think that it's run better now than it was at that time because i think people feel more empowered and therefore more engaged