“I now see that we should have acted sooner, and acted faster,” Bloomberg said on Sunday
Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images In an appearance at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for the NYPD policy of stop-and-frisk, which resulted in the disproportionate and unconstitutional detaining and searching of young African-American and Hispanic New Yorkers.
That year, Bloomberg also said that “we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little,” claiming that the racial disparities in stop-and-frisk were evidence of criminality, not the result of bias. He has defended the program for years, including in a 2018 interview with the New York Times. “I now see that we should have acted sooner, and acted faster,” he said on Sunday.
“The Bloomberg apology is not purely about black voters,” tweeted FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon Jr., who noted that African-American voters largely support Joe Biden, the author of the 1994 crime bill. “It is a necessary move so black elites like Sharpton don’t trash him. And white Dems care about racial equality too — listen to how Pete talks about race.”
“Mayor Bloomberg could have saved himself this apology if he had just listened to the police officers on the street,” said Patrick Lynch, the president of the city’s largest police union. “We said in the early 2000s that the quota-driven emphasis on street stops was polluting the relationship between cops and our communities.”
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