The numbers do not lie about the disparate racial impact of stop and frisk. The program started by Giuliani was continued during the term of his successor, Michael Bloomberg, who defended stop and frisk right up until he briefly, unsuccessfully, and expensively ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. The racism reached new heights during Bloomberg’s regime: in 2011, 685,724 New Yorkers were stopped by police, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Not surprisingly, 87 percent of those people were Black or Latino, despite Blacks and Latinos making up only 25 and 29
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