Bloomberg apologizes for "Stop and Frisk"

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

[pfeiffer]

1. Go...

...jump a creek, Bloomberg.

[redqueen]

2. Yeah that'll work.

He had how many years to change that policy, but didn't?

smh

[BeyondGeography]

3. 10 years @100k stops/yr.

My bad?

[Gothmog]

4. This means that Bloomberg is running

[brooklynite]

8. I heard on ABC that he might announce this week

[melman]

5. Who does that help?

Besides nobody.

[loyalsister]

6. Too late

People pointed out the racism embedded in this policy when he did it.

[Sloumeau]

7. I won't be surprised if this goes over like a lead balloon. :)

[Sloumeau]

9. Bloomberg was still defending "Stop and Frisk" in January of this year.

Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg defends use of 'stop and frisk' policing
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/bloomberg-stop-and-frisk/index.html

Taking questions from the audience during the United States Naval Academy's 2019 Leadership Conference, Bloomberg was told by a Naval Academy midshipman that "there have been a lot of controversies surrounding your support of the policy of stop and frisk that was being used by law enforcement to target African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans."

"What would you say to those in the two communities that have been negatively affected by the policy that you supported in the past?" the midshipman asked Bloomberg.

"We focused on keeping kids from going through the correctional system ... kids who walked around looking like they might have a gun, remove the gun from their pockets and stop it," Bloomberg said. He added that "the result of that was, over the years, the murder rate in New York City went from 650 a year to 300 a year when I left."

[Nanjeanne]

10. Too little - too late. Won't help you Bloomberg.

[SamKnause]

11. How many lives did you destroy ???

How many families did you destroy ???

How many bricks did you add to the wall of racial division in this country ???

Fuck your apology.