NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Whites stopped 'too much,' minorities 'too little'

NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Whites stopped 'too much,' minorities 'too little'

By Dean Chambers


The New York Post reported today, that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has got himself into controversy making a racially charged statement. The mayor made a statement suggesting that police stop and frisk whites too often and do not stop and frisk minorities often enough.
The Post story reported, “"I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little. It's exactly the reverse of what they say," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show, in response to the City Council passing two bills aimed at reining in the controversial policing tactic.”
Statistics show that a majority of the crimes in the city are committed by “young men of color” to which Bloomberg was discussing.
“Eighty seven percent of all stops last year were for blacks or latinos, who constituted 90 percent of murder suspects, according to city stats. Only nine percent of stops were for white people, who made up 7 percent of all murder suspects,” the New York Post also reported.
Several of the candidates running for mayor in this year's election condemned the comments made by Bloomberg.
“As a New Yorker, as a father, as a son of the city, I found Mayor Bloomberg's comments today on his radio show to be outrageous and insulting,” said candidate Bill DeBlasio.
Candidate Bill Thompson said, “The mayor's comments seem to indicate that if you're black or Latino, you're automatically a murder suspect in the city of New York,” he said. "How ... insulting it is to have even uttered those comments. And what he indicates to the hundreds of thousands of people who are stopped and frisked unnecessarily in past years, is that we're sorry we didn't stop more people in the city of New York.”
This issue has been controversial in the past as civil rights advocates have claimed police have racially profiles suspects and disproportionately stopped and frisked minorities. It remains a racially charged issue that Bloomberg's comment quickly got the major into.


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