evidence: Bloomberg’s claim that he cut 95 percent of stop-and-frisk incidents, which disproportionately targeted black and Hispanic men in New York while he was mayor, relies on a selective parsing of the data. [...] According to FactCheck.org, "Bloomberg gets to his figure of a 95% cut by cherry-picking the quarterly high point of 203,500 stops in the first quarter of 2012 and comparing that with the 12,485 stops in the last quarter of 2013 — a decline that would not have been possible without the numbers ballooning earlier in Bloomberg’s tenure." Bloomberg said he later discovered that the stop-and-frisk policy had gotten out of control and ramped it down, but that claim misses some context. For starters, Bloomberg continued to defend the policy until recently, disowning it only before he joined the presidential race.