Bloomberg Responds to Leaked Audio Defending Stop-and-Frisk: ‘I Have Taken Responsibility’

Bloomberg Responds to Leaked Audio Defending Stop-and-Frisk: ‘I Have Taken Responsibility’
Democratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announces his new Latino policy El Paso Adelante (the path forward) at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 29, 2020. Cengiz Yar/Getty Images
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a statement after a five-year-old audio recording of him surfaced, in which he defended his administration’s stop-and-frisk policy.

The audio, released on Feb. 10, was recorded when Bloomberg spoke at the Aspen Institute in 2015. He acknowledged that the controversial policing policy disproportionately affected minorities, but defended it as a necessary measure to combat crime in New York City.

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