Bloomberg suggests fingerprinting NY public housing residents

Bloomberg suggests fingerprinting NY public housing residents

New York City residents should be fingerprinted whenever they enter public housing facilities, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during his radio show on Friday. The measure would help fight crime, Bloomberg said. He added that city officials are already in the process of instituting an electronic key-card system. City leaders promptly blasted Bloomberg, referencing the stop-and-frisk policy and calling his new theory “another direct act of treating minorities like criminals,” ex-comptroller Bill Thompson told AP.