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Bloomberg Needs to Embrace His Record

February 20, 2020 By Debbie Young

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter address the media prior to the 2012 New York City Veterans Day Parade, Nov. 11, 2012. (DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)

Howard Safir, New York City’s police commissioner between 1996 and 2000, argues in the WSJ why Mike Bloomberg should not apologize for fighting crime while he was Mayor. Instead, he insists, Bloomberg should be proud of how he and NYPD implemented stop, question, frisk.

Mr. Bloomberg was a very good mayor. In the 2000s, he and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly kept up the work that had begun in the 1990s under my boss, Mayor Rudy Giuliani. No one would have predicted in the 1970s and ’80s that New York could become—and remain—the safest large city in America. While I was commissioner, the NYPD made fewer than 100,000 annual Terry stops. Under Messrs. Bloomberg and Kelly, use of stop and frisk multiplied as crime continued to fall. In 2011, the NYPD recorded 685,724 Terry stops.

Mayor Bloomberg Did a Good Job

Activists and critics have pointed to these numbers as evidence of police wrongdoing, but activists and critics aren’t responsible for keeping people safe. In New York, that job falls to the mayor, his police commissioner and the roughly 38,000 uniformed NYPD officers. Mr. Kelly did his job well. So did Mr. Bloomberg. As the former mayor tries to secure the Democratic nomination for president, he should embrace that record, not run from it.

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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