Bloomberg, for his part, continues to face questions on his record.
January 18, 2020, 12:03 PMThe former New York City mayor addresses the controversial stop-and-frisk policy in the city., he faced his controversial criminal justice record head-on, expressing remorse for his longstanding support for"stop-and-frisk" policing -- a controversial tactic that was found to be racially discriminatory.
His initial admission has been coupled with policy rollouts addressing criminal justice reform, gun violence, climate change, and economic equity -- promoted in partnership with prominent black leaders who are willing to vouch for his candidacy ahead of Super Tuesday. “I apologized when enough people said to me ‘you were wrong’ and I thought about it and I wish I'd done it earlier. I just didn't,” Bloomberg told Hostin, adding that “In my heart of hearts, I tried to do things to make this country better.”As recently as last week, his national campaign chairman, Michael Nutter, told MSNBC that the former mayor"has acknowledged that mistake and now wants to move forward.
At the height of the New York Police Department's use of stop and frisk in 2011, 685,724 NYPD stops were recorded, according to data collected by the New York Civil Liberties Union. Of those who were stopped, 53% were black and 34% were Latino. Some 88% of the people who were stopped were innocent.in 2013 that stop and frisk violated constitutional rights through indirect racial profiling.
“Questions about mass incarceration, criminal justice, and restorative justice are at the forefront of voters’ minds, even though they may not show up as the very first thing on polling,” said Leah Wright Rigueur, author and assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Tubbs' arguments point to a larger challenge across the Democratic field: Several presidential candidates have imperfect records on criminal justice. Bloomberg vehemently defended the policy, famously pushing back against critics during a weekly radio appearance in 2013 by refuting reports that stop and frisk was disproportionately affecting black and Latino residents the day after the city council required the NYPD to reduce the police tactic.
Six years after Floyd vs. New York City, Peart questions the timing of Bloomberg's black voter outreach. When asked what he would say to voters who called his outreach inauthentic and strategic, Bloomberg told ABC News in December,"All I can tell you is that I’ve probably worked harder since I left City Hall than before, in terms of taking on the NRA, in terms of running 'Every Town' , going across this country to stop crime, and unfortunately a lot of it is happening among young people. I'm very proud of what we are doing and we are going to keep doing it.
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