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Policy is not perfect, it's a legitimate price tactic that works. think progress points out, of the people that were stopped and frisked last year, a weapon was found 1.9% of the time. new data projects officers could make 8,000 stops this year. 85% of those stopped were black or latino, even though the groups make up half of new york city's police population. in fact, the number of stop and frisk among young black men exceeds the city's population of young black men. bloomberg insists the nypd does not racially profile people and will not tolerate profiling. >> no person should ever be stoppe...

Get them off the street. the left hates that. hates it. because it is racial profiling. but it's really criminal profiling. >> to hear bill o'reilly tell it, stop and frisk not only works, it makes sense. but the numbers don't lie. stop and frisk, a policy that gives new york city police officers the authority to stop and search people they consider suspicious disproportionately affects young black and latino men. now major michael bloomberg is defending the controversial strategy. >> there's no denying -- takes guns off the streets and save lives. to borrow a phrase from president clinton, i ...

Policy is not perfect, it's a legitimate police tactic that works. think progress points out, of the people that were stopped and frisked last year, a weapon was found 1.9% of the time. new data projects police officers could make 800,000 stops this year. that's more than twice the population of miami. 85% of those stopped were black or latino, even though those groups make up half of new york city's police population. in fact, the number of stop and frisk among young black men exceeds the city's population of young black men. bloomberg insists the nypd does not racially profile people and wil...

House republicans voted for a plan introduced by congressman paul ryan of wisconsin that would get rid of the current system and replace it with a voucher system. the ryan plan would cost more and no longer guarantee benefits. that's a change. in other words, it would be nothing like medicare. the trouble is, it would still be called medicare. which is apparently enough reason for politifact to call it, they claim it a lie. politifact does admit the ryan plan is a huge change to the current program. as think progress points out, it's more than that. capping cost to beneficiaries. closing the t...

The trouble is, it would still be called medicare. which is apparently enough reason for politifact to call it, they claim it a lie. politifact does admit the ryan plan is a huge change to the current program. as think progress points out, it's more than that. capping cost to beneficiaries. closing the traditional fee for service program. and forcing seniors to enroll in new private coverage. ends medicare by eliminating everything that has defined the program for the last 46 years. politifact's own readers, their own readers, picked the gop's bogus claim as the economic stimulus failed to cre...