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Potential Presidential Candidate Bloomberg Queasy On Crime Policy

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, yet to make a formal statement on whether or not he’ll be running for president in 2020, apologized for what he referred to as previous mistakes during his time as Mayor of New York City.

“I got something important wrong.”

“Over time I’ve come to understand something that I’ve long struggled to admit to myself. I got something important wrong. I got something important really wrong,” Bloomberg said at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn.

The initial intention that Bloomberg had was to reduce gun violence, but is oddly calling it a mistake now, as he looks back, despite many former law enforcement officers like political pundit Dan Bongino having touted it as effective.

“Today, I want you to know that I realize that back then I was wrong. And I’m sorry,” he said.

“Mayor Bloomberg could have saved himself this apology if he had just listened to the police officers on the street. We said in the early 2000s that the quota-driven emphasis on street cops was polluting the relationship between cops and our communities. His administration’s misguided policy inspired an anti-police movement that has made cops the target of hatred and violence, and stripped away many of the tools we had used to keep New Yorkers safe. The apology is too little, too late,” New York City PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said.

Potential 2020 Run

Bloomberg filed paperwork in Alabama on Friday to designate him as a candidate, however, it’s yet to be formally confirmed and announced that he will participate in the 2020 elections.

A controversial statement came out from one of his advisers, saying that if they do in fact run, there won’t be any campaigns in the early voting presidential primary and caucus states.

“If we run, we are confident we can win in states voting on Super Tuesday and beyond, where we will start on an even footing. But the late timing of our entry means that many candidates already have a big head start in the four early states, where they’ve spent months and months campaigning and spending money,” adviser Howard Wolfson said.

Representatives of the first four states to kick off the elections, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, were disappointed with this decision, as the first four has a lot of events that include questions being asked to candidates – introducing them to the process and essentially grilling them and preparing them for the future.

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