Presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg renounced his former policy.
at the Christian Cultural Center, a non-denominational “megachurch” in the predominantly minority neighborhood of East New York in Brooklyn.
“I didn’t understand back then the full impact that stops were having on the black and Latino communities,” Bloomberg continued. Stop-and-frisk was a policy that grew from the aggressive police work started under Bloomberg's predecessor,. At its apex in 2011, during Bloomberg's third term, there were 685,724 stops recorded. Only nine percent of those stopped were white and 88 percent were innocent,Stop-and-frisk allows officers to briefly detain someone on reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.
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