{"id":42344,"date":"2020-02-12T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42344"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T22:42:06","slug":"wapo-mike-bloomberg-ignored-early-evidence-that-stop-and-frisk-could-be-racially-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=42344","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Mike Bloomberg ignored early evidence that \u2018stop-and-frisk\u2019 could be racially biased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/02\/12\/mike-bloomberg-ignored-early-evidence-that-stop-and-frisk-could-be-racially-biased\/\">Mike Bloomberg ignored early evidence that \u2018stop-and-frisk\u2019 could be racially biased<\/a> by Victor Ray:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If one were designing a statement illustrating racism in the criminal justice system, it would be hard to improve upon recently unearthed comments that former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg made in 2015 at the Aspen Ideas Festival.<\/p>\n<p>On the recording, tweeted out by political commentator and podcast host Benjamin Dixon, Bloomberg can be heard defending the infamous stop-and-frisk policy that targeted, often without cause, young black and Latino men in New York. \u201cYou can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are male minorities, 15 to 25. That\u2019s true in New York. It\u2019s true in virtually every city.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Mike Bloomberg ignored early evidence that \u2018stop-and-frisk\u2019 could be racially biased by Victor Ray:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretext","category-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42345,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42344\/revisions\/42345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}