evidence: Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg misleadingly stated that he "cut" the police practice of stop-and-frisk — a policy that he "inherited" — by "95%" by the time he left office as mayor of New York. There were nearly twice as many stops in his last year as mayor compared with the year before he took office. [...] 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. [...] No matter the reason for the decline in stops, though, Bloomberg’s explanation that he "inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk" and "cut it back by 95%," may leave the mistaken impression that he cut the program by that amount from what he inherited. In fact, the practice greatly expanded under his watch — and with his encouragement — and then contracted from that height during his last two years in office.