Bloomberg admits he was wrong, apologizes for 'stop and frisk' - NY Times

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted he was wrong to support the &qu...

NEW YORK - Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted he was wrong to support the “stop and frisk” police practice that ensnared disproportionate numbers of blacks and Latinos, apologizing to a largely African-American church on Sunday as he weighs a presidential bid.

His reversal comes as he considers whether to compete for the Democratic nomination for president, a contest in which African-American voters are highly influential. The practice stopped and frisked more than 684,000 people at its peak in 2011, ostensibly in many cases to search for illegal weapons. But the non-profit Center for Constitutional Rights conducted a study that found blacks and Latinos were nine times more likely than white people to be stopped in 2009. The searches sometimes turned up low-level offenses such as drug possession that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.

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