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Bloomberg was mayor, empowering police officers to detain, question, and frisk people and at its peak, police stopped more than 200,000 people during the first three months of 2012. now, the new york civil liberties union estimated that blacks and latinos accounted for more than 50% of the stops in 70 out of 76 new york precincts and more than 90% in 32 precincts. activists, no surprise, called the measure racist. now, bloomberg has denied that accusation and touted the reduction in crime and incarceration rates. still, after intense and sustained backlash at the time, the stops started to dec...

Now the new york civil liberties union estimated that blacks and latinos accounted for the stops and more than 90% in 32. activists no surprise called the measure racist. now bloomberg has denied that accusation and touteded the reduction in crime and incarceration rates. still after intense and sustained backlash at the time, the stops started to decline until they were ultimately reduced by 95% by the end of bloomberg's administration. now bloomberg however continued to defend the tactic as recently as january. it's hard to tell whether an apology be l help him win over democratic primary vo...