FORMER MAYOR APOLOGIZES FOR KEEPING CITY SAFE: Bloomberg Renounces His Record as a Crime-Fighter in NY.

In what looks like the clearest sign yet of a run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has taken a page from the book of the current frontrunner, Joe Biden. Earlier this year, Biden used a Martin Luther King Day speech at an event hosted by Al Sharpton to apologize for his role in both the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (better known as the Crime Bill) and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 (which established the now widely derided 100:1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine). Yesterday, addressing a predominantly black crowd at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, Bloomberg apologized for the NYPD’s policing practices during his three-term mayoral tenure. “I was wrong,” Bloomberg said, “And I am sorry.”

And of course: Bloomberg apologized personally to Al Sharpton:

“He called me right after the statement,” Sharpton said. “My position is, clearly, it’s going to take more than one speech for people to forgive and forget. He’s right. He’s gonna to earn it, but I think that we at the same time have to hear him out if he runs, just like we’re hearing out Joe Biden, who authored the crime bill that incarcerated a lot of blacks disproportionately, and Bernie Sanders, who voted for it.”

Somehow, Democrats running for the White House have allowed Sharpton, with his past record of fabulism and anti-Semitism  to be the Godfather for 20 years now.