Defiant Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Appeal ‘Stop & Frisk’ Ruling by Activist Judge to avoid return to Dinkins Era

Defiant Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Appeal ‘Stop & Frisk’ Ruling by Activist Judge to avoid return to Dinkins Era

As a lifelong New York City resident, I remember the high crime days under Mayor David Dinkins.Down the block from my house in broad day light drug dealers operated an open air market for all kinds of drugs.

The number of murders was 2,300 to 2,600 per year for each year Dinkins was in office.He was by far the worst mayor in New York City history and New Yorkers revolted at the ballot box by not electing a Democrat mayor for the past 20 years.

Today’s decision by a radical Leftist judge appointing a Federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s stop and frisk program is a major step backward toward the bad old Dinkins days.However, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is refusing to give up without a fight to protect his legacy of record breaking crime reduction.: : : : : : 

International Business Times reports New York City Mayor Michael

Bloomberg

Bloomberg

Bloomberg has vowed to appeal a Monday ruling by a federal judge that stated that the NYPD’s controversial “stop and frisk” policy violates its targets’ constitutional rights because its implementation relies on race-based discrimination.

In a defiant press conference at City Hall on Monday afternoon, Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly defended the practice and sought to rebut criticisms of the “stop and frisk” regime made in U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s 195-page ruling and by a wide range

Dinkins

Dinkins

of advocates, city residents, and other critics.

“This is a very dangerous decision made by a judge that I think doesn’t understand policing or what is allowable under the Constitution as determined by the Supreme Court,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg and Corporation Counsel Michael Cardoza, the city’s top attorney, repeatedly said at City Hall that the city will appeal the decision and ask for a stay of the accompanying order, which requires the implementation a variety of reforms including the appointment of an independent monitor of some “stop and frisks” and requiring some police officers to wear cameras on the beat.

Year

Murder

Mayor

Party

1990

2,605

Dinkins

Democrat

1991

2,571

Dinkins

Democrat

1992

2,397

Dinkins

Democrat

1993

2,420

Dinkins

Democrat

1994

2,016

Giuliani

Republican

1995

1,550

Giuliani

Republican

1996

1,353

Giuliani

Republican

1997

1,093

Giuliani

Republican

1998

924

Giuliani

Republican

1999

903

Giuliani

Republican

2000

952

Giuliani

Republican

2001

960

Giuliani

Republican

2002

909

Bloomberg

Republican

2003

934

Bloomberg

Republican

2004

889

Bloomberg

Republican

2005

874

Bloomberg

Republican

2006

921

Bloomberg

Republican

2007

801

Bloomberg

Republican

2008

836

Bloomberg

Independent

2009

781

Bloomberg

Independent

2010

868

Bloomberg

Independent

2011

774

Bloomberg

Independent

: I think this judge is clearly bowing at the altar of political correctness and the civil rights industrial complex.: : 

Originally published at The Last Tradition

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