Plaintiffs, including restaurant and theater owners and the soft drink industry, hailed the death of the soda ban as a victory for small businesses and entrepreneurs. New York City's appeal was rejected in June , when the state Court of Appeals ruled that the city's board of health overstepped its authority when it approved the ban. Bloomberg pushed for the ban to help fight obesity in the city.
But many New Yorkers never liked the directive, saying it gave the government too much power over their personal matters and was an attempt to trample on their rights. The mayor countered that the litigation was pushed by special interests. One of the biggest controversies that follows Bloomberg on the campaign trail is his defense of stop-and-frisk.
As soon as Bloomberg took office in , the number of stops by the NYPD skyrocketed, climbing to its highest point in , Stop-and-frisk incidents began to decrease as a class action lawsuit against the practice made its way through court.
In , a judge ruled the practice unconstitutional and said it disproportionately affected black and Hispanic New Yorkers. But it wasn't until November , as he was seriously considering a run for president, that Bloomberg apologized for stop-and-frisk. Bloomberg's reversal, six years after the ruling, made headlines for a man not known for admitting errors.
In fact, he defended the policy in January Critics panned his apology as conveniently timed given that he was expected to launch a presidential bid as a Democrat, a party increasingly rejecting more aggressive policing tactics. A Associated Press investigation of police intelligence reports found that the city police department had for years monitored mosques, Muslim neighborhoods, and students. Among the findings: the NYPD sent an undercover officer with students from City College on a whitewater rafting trip, monitored online activity of Muslim students, and fixed cameras to light poles to surveil mosques.
Bloomberg came to the department's defense. The mayor argued the NYPD was keeping the city safe, but the investigation found the surveillance occurred despite no links to criminal or terrorism activity.
Spike in Marijuana Enforcement While it took years after he left office for the political tide to shift towards leniency for low-level marijuana possession, Bloomberg's NYPD arrested tens of thousands of people for possessing the drug. According to data from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services , in alone there were 40, marijuana possession arrests in New York City, more than the sum of the previous three mayoral administrations combined.
A Drop in Crime While he backed some aggressive policing policies, Bloomberg earned praise for the city's crime rate continuing to fall under his watch. The number of murders in the city peaked in , at 2, By the end of , New York's rate of 3. In , Bloomberg's last year in office, the total number of homicides in New York City was about Back in , Bloomberg set a goal of cutting street homelessness and the shelter population by two-thirds. Instead, the shelter population actually increased during his time as mayor.
According to the Coalition for the Homeless , over 48, people were in city shelters by the time Bloomberg left office, an increase of more than 15, compared to January , when he began his first term. The billionaire mayor was, at times, seen as insensitive to the homeless. In February , he was criticized for saying "nobody is sleeping on the streets. The mayor's comment came at a time of intense scrutiny over the city's homeless policies. A week before his comments, a state appellate court sided with the City Council in its challenge to a Bloomberg administration policy that required single adults prove they had no other alternative when seeking access to a homeless shelter.
City Hall also faced criticism for turning families away from shelters on cold winter nights. Bloomberg was one of New York City's longest-serving mayors. But the path he took to becoming a three-term mayor was paved with controversy. In October , a year before the mayoral election, the City Council, by a vote, approved Bloomberg's request to extend the two-term limit for city elected officials. Once adamantly opposed to overturning the will of the people, the mayor had argued New York needed his economic expertise so he could lead the city for a third term after the financial crisis.
Then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn made a similar argument in defending the council extending term limits , saying New Yorkers needed the opportunity for "consistent leadership. A Quinnipiac University poll two days before the vote found that 89 percent of voters preferred a referendum, not a council vote, to decide if term limits should be extended beyond two four-year terms.
A Marist College Poll found New Yorkers were divided — 46 percent in favor, 44 against, and 10 percent undecided — when pollsters asked if term limits should be changed for Bloomberg, specifically. His experience running New York City is clearly central to his pitch.
I know what to do. Digging into it for this story, I talked for a long time with one source about how New York City manages its trash, and multiple people brought up their experiences in specific snowstorms.
People were afraid to visit the city, and people who lived and worked there were afraid to stay. Absolutely not. But he left much of the city better off than when he arrived. Also, a lot of New Yorkers hate their mayors as a matter of course.
At the South Carolina debate, Bloomberg touted the smoking ban and the increased life expectancy in New York under his watch. But he also noted that not all of his nanny-state policies would accompany him to the White House — as in, probably no executive orders on trans fats.
For example, Bloomberg insisted on fingerprinting food stamp recipients , even when the vast majority of the country and the rest of the state had abandoned the practice. Andrew Cuomo eventually ended the practice.
Bloomberg also advocated fingerprinting people who live in public housing , and he ended the practice of families getting priority for federal housing vouchers , worrying that people might enter the shelter system to get vouchers faster.
Bloomberg apologized for the practice, which has been widely discredited and was struck down by a court in , before announcing his White House bid, but he defended it for years. He and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly, expanded stop and frisk significantly. The policy disproportionately affected communities of color, namely, black and Latino men, and stops were often aggressive and humiliating. Thompson Jr. New York City held a mayoral general election on November 8, Michael Bloomberg R was elected mayor for a second time.
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Bloomberg stepped down from his political duties in January and spent that year focusing on his philanthropic pursuits before returning as CEO of Bloomberg L. During the presidential election, Bloomberg considered running as a third party independent, fearing that the candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties were too extreme and would turn off many voters, before he officially reneged on pursuing the matter in March On July 27, , Bloomberg spoke at the Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary Clinton , speaking honestly about how he came to endorse her, as well as his approach to politics.
But let me tell you, whatever our disagreements may be, I've come here to say: We must put them aside for the good of our country.
And we must unite around the candidate who can defeat a dangerous demagogue," he said, referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Although Bloomberg was unable to prevent the election of Trump, he later found solidarity among others who opposed the president's actions. After Trump announced he was pulling the U. In December, marking the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Bloomberg joined an all-star gathering of heads of state, environmentalists and other business leaders at the One Planet Summit in Paris.
According to a statement released by Bloomberg Philanthropies, its founder will continue to bankroll the pact if the U. In March , the environmentalist announced plans to launch Beyond Carbon, an endeavor to "retire every single coal-fired power plant over the next 11 years" and to "begin moving America as quickly as possible away from oil and gas and toward a percent clean energy economy. After initially deciding against running for president in , Bloomberg seemingly reversed course by filing paperwork to qualify for the Alabama primary by the November deadline.
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