Donald Trump said in an interview on “core black issues” Wednesday that cops across the US should expand the use of stop-and-frisk to combat black-on-black crime — using the practice in place during the Bloomberg administration in New York City as a model.

“One of the things I’d do … is I would do stop-and-frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York and it worked incredibly well and you have to be proactive,” Trump said in response to an audience member at a town hall-style meeting who asked what Trump would do to stop the violence in African-American communities.

The meeting was recorded at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland, where the pastor is a longtime Trump supporter, and was being aired on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program.

Trump suggested that people who have opposed the tactic because they believe it unfairly targets minorities would change their minds once they saw crime go down.

“You know, you really help people sort of change their mind automatically … I see what’s going on here, I see what’s going on in Chicago,” the GOP nominee said.

“In New York City it was so incredible, the way it worked. Now we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that would be one step you could do.”

Trump has been a vocal supporter of the tactic, which has been drastically scaled back in the Big Apple since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office, calling for more stop-and-frisks in Philadelphia and Cleveland in the past.

He has also supported maintaining the federal government’s practice of providing military-style equipment to local police departments to help quell disorder in the streets.

Trump called for “an immediate end” to the overnight violence in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a black man was fatally shot by cops under circumstances that remain under investigation.

“Hopefully the violence & unrest in Charlotte will come to an immediate end. To those injured, get well soon. We need unity & leadership,” Trump tweeted.

The Rev. Darrell Scott, the Cleveland church’s pastor, serves as CEO of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump.

Scott spoke glowingly on Trump’s behalf at the Republican National Convention in July, and has served as a liaison between Team Trump and other black clergy.