In an article published in ''Rolling Stone'', entitled, ''Enter Mike Bloomberg, Exit Black Voters'', author Jamil Smith observed that Stop and Frisk
In an article published in ''Rolling Stone'', entitled, ''Enter Mike Bloomberg, Exit Black Voters'', author Jamil Smith observed that Stop and Frisk
{{quotebox|"increased exponentially under [[Michael Bloomberg|[Democrat presidential candidate Mike] Bloomberg]], going from 97,000 in 2002 to more than 500,000 in 2006 and 700,000 in 2011. And the federal judge who declared stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013 found nearly 90 percent of the people stopped hadn’t done anything illegal....NYPD officers disproportionately stopped black and Latino New Yorkers — 83 percent of the stops from 2004 to 2012, per ProPublica — despite their comprising about only half of the city’s population. ....I wouldn’t put it past the [[Wall Street]] [[oligarch]]s to be counting upon this, a forced compromise that will eject a charlatan wrecking their profits with trade wars and install someone who will be more friendly to them — but who will largely leave the most vital Democratic constituencies in the cold, possibly with their hands up and getting searched.
{{quotebox|"increased exponentially under [[Michael Bloomberg|[Democrat presidential candidate Mike] Bloomberg]], going from 97,000 in 2002 to more than 500,000 in 2006 and 700,000 in 2011. And the federal judge who declared stop-and-frisk unconstitutional in 2013 found nearly 90 percent of the people stopped hadn’t done anything illegal....NYPD officers disproportionately stopped black and Latino New Yorkers — 83 percent of the stops from 2004 to 2012, per ProPublica — despite their comprising about only half of the city’s population. ....I wouldn’t put it past the [[Wall Street]] [[oligarch]]s to be counting upon this, a forced compromise that will eject a charlatan wrecking their profits with trade wars and install someone who will be more friendly to them — but who will largely leave the most vital Democratic constituencies in the cold, possibly with their hands up and getting searched.