evidence: 9:29 p.m. Bloomberg addresses past support for "stop-and-frisk" Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, when asked about his past support for the controversial policy of "stop-and-frisk" policing, tackled his past head on. "If I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk," he said. "When I got into office, there was 650 murders a year in New York City. And I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. That's the basic right of everything."