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[–]Bloomfield_Heights 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

To be fair, Bloomberg was a Democrat and crime rapidly shrank under his watch. Then again, he was hated by everyone else in the party because of stop and frisk.

[–]GConly 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

stop and frisk.

By far the most effective method to cut down street crime there is. Ends up targeting black youths because they commit street crime at a way higher level.

When we ditched it in London for being racially targeted the number of young black men killed in street crime shot up.

[–]AmbroseBierce 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Bloomberg was a Republican when he was mayor.

Crime went down under him because he kept the policies that Giuliani put in place.

[–]SaidOverRed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what happens to Democrats who do the right thing. They get the boot!

[–]Cratis 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, he wasn't. As mayor, he was a Republican, then an independent. Once he returned to being a democrat he apologized for the things he did that made the city safer. Fortunately for the democrats Bill DeBlasio is destroying 4 decades of progress in a matter of years and quickly returning NYC to the good old days of the late 70s/ early 80s.