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Let's urge our mayors to go back to Law and Order, or elect a new mayors who want to keep us safe without fear. The Police should always have the upper hand with Community Policing. If necessary, implement "stop and frisk", which allows police to check suspicious people for illegal guns. The Supreme Court says "stop and frisk" is constitutional according to the 8 to 1 Terry vs. Ohio decision. Something has to be done. Are we waiting until an innocent child is killed by stray bullets?

A newly surfaced recording from a 2015 speech by Michael Bloomberg, in which the former three-term mayor of New York City gives a full-throated defense of the controversial policing procedure known as "stop and frisk," is threatening to undermine the 2020 presidential candidate's subsequent apologies for backing the policy and hurt his status with minority voters. President Trump blasted his fellow New Yorker as the audio emerged, saying in a Tuesday morning tweet as the New Hampshire primary was getting underway: '"WOW, BLOOMBERG IS A TOTAL RACIST!" The tweet was later taken down, without explanation.

William C. Thompson Jr., the sole African-American in this year’s New York City mayoral contest, rarely talks about race. In a city of flame-throwing orators, he has long favored a political path of conciliation over confrontation. But on Sunday, Mr. Thompson arrived before a mostly black congregation in a storefront church and issued a fierce denunciation of the policies of the New York Police Department, saying they are drawn from the same racial suspicions that drove George Zimmerman to hunt down Trayvon Martin. “Here in New York City, we have institutionalized Mr. Zimmerman’s suspicion with a policy that all but...