The Truth Hurts

Just yesterday we wrote about former mayors having problems with black voters related to mayoral association with city police activity. We identified Bloomberg as facing this issue from his time as mayor of New York City.

Today a 2015 audio recording surfaces on Politico of former mayor Bloomberg talking at the Aspen Institute about urban murders. The quote:

Ninety-five percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims — fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops.

They are male minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York. That’s true in virtually every city. And that’s where the real crime is.

In politics, this is known as a Kinsley gaffe. A Kinsley gaffe is a politician speaking (or writing) a truth people find offensive. As a Democrat, Bloomberg isn’t supposed to admit minorities commit (as well as suffer) most of the urban murders. Oops.