Now that the case against former IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn has fallen apart, Mayor Bloomberg objects to handcuffed “perp walks” of crime suspects.
“I’ve always thought that the perp walks were outrageous,” Bloomberg said Tuesday. “They’re not guilty until they’re convicted, andyet we vilify them forthe benefit of theater, for the circus. … They did it in Roman times, too.”
Bloomberg had a different view when the French big was first arrested in May. “I think it is humiliating, but if you don’t want to do the perp walk, don’t do the crime,” he said at the time. “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for that.”