A week after saying black violence is the reason for heavy police presence in black communities, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani said some black complaints about rough treatment from cops are legitimate.

“I do believe that there is more interaction, and more unfair interaction, among police officers white and black in the black community than in the white community,” Giuliani said on Fox News Sunday. “And I think some of that responsibility is on police departments to train their police officers better and to make their police departments much more diversified.”

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Nevertheless, Giuliani reiterated his earlier claims about the reason for heavier police presence in black neighborhoods. “Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society,” he said.

“When I assigned police officers with Commissioner [William] Bratton and Commissioner [Howard] Safir,” Giuliani said, “we did it based on statistics. We didn’t do it based on race. If there were a lot of murders in a community, we put a lot of police officers there. If I had put all my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would have been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.”