Michael Bloomberg on Stop-and-Frisk: ‘I Made a Mistake and I Apologized’

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BLOOMBERG: "Stephanie, when I came into office, there were 650 people getting killed in New York City every year, mostly poor minority males. I said, 'We just can’t do this. These are people's lives. Innocent people are getting shot. We have to do something about it.' Yes, I made a mistake in doing it too long. Maybe even the whole program, you could have done something else, who knows what would have happened. But I made a mistake and I apologized. The objectives have not changed."