Bloomberg blasts use of movie during NYPD training NEW YORK (AP) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used "terrible judgment" in showing officers a film about Muslims that Islamic groups have complained is inflammatory. Bloomberg said commanders have stopped showing the movie, "The Third Jihad," which contends Muslims are bent on establishing an Islamic regime worldwide. The film, which was played during counterterrorism training seminars, was bankrolled by a conservative group called the Clarion Fund, according to The New York Times. "Somebody exercised terrible judgment," Bloomberg said in Albany. As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it. The criticism was unusual for Bloomberg, who in recent months vigorously defended the police department's counterterrorism efforts after an Associated Press investigation exposed a secret program to gather intelligence on Muslim neighborhoods. Bloomberg said neither he nor Police Commissioner Ray Kelly knew about the film being shown. The movie was shown on a continuous loop while officers were signing in for counterterrorism training from October to December 2010, according to police documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank at New York University. As many as 1,489 officers, including 68 lieutenants, may have seen it, the documents say. Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said that the movie was not among the official training materials and that the decision to play it in the background at the training sessions was made by a sergeant. He said she has been reprimanded. This was never used in training, period. It was never authorized for use in training, period," Browne said. The screening of the film inside the 36,000-member police department has been known for months, but police originally said only a few officers had seen it. Police stopped showing the film after one of the trainees complained. Muslims groups have complained that the film exaggerates radical Islamic elements. Associated Press Writers Michael Gormley and Tom Hays contributed to this report.