O'Malley's stats are inaccurate.
COOPER: In one year alone, though, 100,000 arrests were made in your city, a city of 640,000 people. The ACLU, the NAACP sued you, sued the city, and the city actually settled, saying a lot of those arrests were without probable cause.
O'MALLEY: Well, I think the key word in your follow-up there was the word "settle." That's true. It was settled. Arrests peaked in 2003, Anderson, but they declined every year after that as we restored peace in our poorer neighborhoods so that people could actually walk and not have to worry about their kids or their loved ones of being victims of violent crime.
Actually the peak in arrests came in 2005. And they were still high in 2006. O'Malley left office in January of 2007. The next mayor abandoned O'Malley's mass arrest, mass stop-and-frisk, and other zero tolerance policies, and the murder rate came down way more than under O'Malley. So much for O'Malley's claim that his zero tolerance policies saved lives.