Critics are skeptical after the former New York City mayor apologized for the 'stop-and-frisk' policy he aggressively enforced for more than a decade.
On Sunday, Bloomberg appeared at a Brooklyn, New York megachurch to apologize and pull back his decades-long support of stop-and-frisk.The New York TimesBloomberg immediately received mild praise from black community leaders including Al Sharpton in a tweet Sunday, but many remain skeptical of the former mayor's sudden change of heart on a policy that led to the imprisonment of thousands, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.
As many critics have noted, Bloomberg adamantly stood by stop-and-frisk as late as September of last yearAccording to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis, African American voters make up about 20 percent of the Democratic Party's base nationwide. Bloomberg successor in the NYC mayoral office, Bill de Blasio, announced the reversal of the city's stop-and-frisk policy in January 2014.
Former Mayor Bloomberg just apologized for stop and frisk policy while he was Mayor. Whatever his motive, Iâm glad to see this.
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Michael Bloomberg apologizes for stop-and-frisk policy amid a potential presidential run - Business InsiderMichael Bloomberg apologized on Sunday for his support of the NYPD's use of 'stop-and-frisk,' after years of vigorously defending the program.
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Bloomberg apologizes for ‘stop and frisk’ police practiceMichael Bloomberg says he no longer supports the “stop-and-frisk” policing strategy that he embraced as mayor of New York. The potential Democratic presidential candidate says the practice often led to the disproportionate detaining of blacks and Latinos.
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Michael Bloomberg Apologized for Stop-and-FriskAt a black megachurch in Brooklyn on Sunday, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for “stop-and-frisk,” the centerpiece crime prevention policy of his long mayoral tenure that aggressively targeted Black and Latinx people across the five boroughs. “Stop-and-frisk” led to the stopping of 685,000 people by police at its height in 2011, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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