Michael Bloomberg Claims He Pushed Racist ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Policy Because He Wanted to Help Black People

One of the most appalling statistics I’ve ever read about racial profiling comes from a 2012 New York Civil Liberties Union report on the NYPD’s racist “stop-and-frisk” policy. In 2011, the NYPD searched 168,126 young black men (between the ages of 14 and 24). Depending on your knowledge of the relationship between…

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