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As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
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At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.
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Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.
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Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
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I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
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I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
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My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
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My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
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My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
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There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
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While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
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There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
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