>> Michael Bloomberg was on The View and he was off with an important question about one
of the policies that he implemented in New York City when he was the Mayor.
That was the Stop and Frisk policy that disproportionately, profiled African-Americans living in the city
and harass them, gave cops the ability to harass them incessantly.
So what do you have to say about that policy?
Take a look.
>> One of things that has concerned me about you, is in November just a week before your
presidential campaign announcement, you apologized for your signature in Stop and Frisk policy.
>> Yep.
>> And let's face it, it causes 600 increase in police stops, that just proportionately
targets black and Latino men.
>> Yes.
>> 90% of whom were innocent, we're talking about 14 stops out of 10,000, Only produced
the gun, okay?
Many question the authenticity of that apology Mayor Bloomberg, myself included only because
in January of that year, you stood up for Stop and Frisk.
So what happened between January and November that caused this change of heart because it
sounds like a political move to me.
>> When I got elected, I took a look there was 650 murders a year in New York City.
Most of them were young, minority men.
And I said we just have to stop this.
That's where my heart is.
That's what I wanted to do.
And I would do virtually anything I could, anything that the professionals gave me some
advice to do to stop that.
And when I left office it was down to 300, so saved a lot of lives but during that period
in looking back it certainly got out of hand and we stopped more.
The bottom line is when I saw it was too, we don't, we'd gone way overboard.
I stopped it.
And before I left office, we'd cut 95% of it out.
Then I apologize when enough people said to me you were wrong and I thought about it,
and I wish I'd done it earlier.
I just didn't.
So apologize and and and go on.
>> So first off I just want to do some fact checking before I open this up for discussion.
So he was lying when it came to the changes he made in his last year in office, so Bloomberg
never cut out 95% of Stop and Frisks.
The New York police Department stopped more than 500,000 people every year until Bloomberg's
last year and office when the total number of stops dropped dramatically because a federal
court made him stop.
Okay, so that's what really happened.
It wasn't because he realized that this was a gross injustice, which it was.
It was because the feds literally had to get involved and they forced him to scrap this
policy.
>> Yeah.
>> So there is that.
>> That's how you know he's sorry because a federal court had to stop him.
>> Politicians man.
>> That was a good moment actually.
Look, I'm very critical of The View, I know that you are as well, but that was good.
They had access to these people.
She didn't just like, hey, what's your favorite ice cream?
That was a good take.
I think it laid out the political opportunism of his supposed flip on that issue.
My takeaway from that clip is, he wasn't really sorry, he's not sorry now.
He thought it was a great idea.
God only knows if he became president, maybe it expanded across the country.
>> And I guess the courts would stop it since they had to initially but,
>> That's what, look.
You're 100% right.
The View has good moments.
It's just that the good moments are usually like overpowered by the bad moments.
And this is, Sunny Hostin, I think is one of the strongest hosts on The View and she
did a good job asking these questions.
Little more fact checking, though, to rebut what Bloomberg said in that segment.
According to the court ordered ACLU data in Bloomberg last year as mayor, police stopped
and frisked a higher percentage of black people, 56%, than, at any time during his three terms,
okay?
So, 88% of people who cops stopped in 2013 were eventually found to be innocent.
And, for five decades, despite the fact that constitutional experts, and sociologists,
Michael Bloomberg continued to insist that he was right and, everyone else was wrong.
So all right, >> Sounds Trumpian.
>> So that's the reality and that's what you should know.