Mike Bloomberg’s feeding African American voters an image of a pugnacious businessman willing to do anything to take out Trump. New tapes remind us he was just as dogged about stopping and frisking black folks
That was just a taste of the wrong in Bloomberg’s Aspen rant. His solution to this problem that he misunderstood was to “put a lot of cops in the street, put those cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods. So this is one of the unintended consequences is people saying, ‘Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana, they’re all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. Yes that’s true.
Yes, that’s an appropriate descriptor. Even if it doesn’t matter to you that the practice of “stop-and-frisk” was racist, the practice was ineffective.found that only 14 of every 10,000 stops produced a gun and only 1,200 of those 10,000 were offenses that resulted in fines. However, we live in a “tough on crime” political world, where men like Bloomberg have to appear like they’re doing something to solve the problem — even if they haven’t the first clue what they’re doing.
“President Trump’s deleted tweet is the latest example of his endless efforts to divide Americans,” Bloomberg said through his campaign. “Ithe police practice of stop-and-frisk, and as part of our effort to stop gun violence it was. By the time I left office, I cut it back by 95%, but I should’ve done it faster and sooner. I regret that and I have apologized — and I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on Black and Latino communities.
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