Little Mike gets caught telling the truth, with dire consequences for his presidential bid

Raising the question, why does he want to take guns away from the rest of us?

2015 tape surfaces from Aspen Institute Conference reveals Bloomberg saying “[in NYC] 95% of murderers and their victims are ethnic minority males”.

"95 percent of your murders -- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, sixteen to twenty-five. That's true in New York, that's true in virtually every city," Bloomberg said.

"And that's where the real crime is”…. . "You've got to get the guns out of the hands of the people that are getting killed. You want to spend the money on a lot of cops on the streets." Once you've got more cops, he argued, you have to "put the cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods."

Bloomberg even responded to those who'd pull the race card on him. "One of the unintended consequences is people say, 'Oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.' Yes, that's true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. Yes, that's true. Why do we do it? Because that's where all the crime is."

And he wasn't done quite yet. He added that "[the] way you get the guns out of the kids' hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them... And then they start... 'Oh, I don't want to get caught.' So they don't bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home."

Here’s the thing: Bloomberg is right: blacks and Hispanics are both the main perpetrators and victims of violent crime in cities like New York. It may be that intrusive police tactics like stop-and-frisk are the wrong way to stop that crime and that somehow rebuilding minority familes, reforming public education and somehow instilling a sense of purpose and hope into young black and Hispanic males is the cure, but I think Bloomberg was looking at it from the perspective of policing: first, stop the bleeding.

Regardless, Bloomberg’s going to be hammered for saying aloud what everyone knows, but dare not say. Too bad, because you can’t address a problem if you won’t admit it exists.

UPDATE, 2/12/20: I don’t watch TV news of any brand, but I did come across this clip of Fox News’ Sean Hannity denouncing Biden’s remarks as racist. He makes no reference to the Bratton report cited above; indeed, he flatly denies that minorities commit 95% of violent crime in NYC. Hannity isn’t alone in this bullshit — he’s been joined in the pile-on by his fellow prevaricators on the Left, but it does reaffirm my decision made years ago to ignore television news, because they’re liars, every one of them.