In the late 1980s, the United States experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk ...

NEW YORK -- The NYPD is essentially letting officers off the hook for using the banned practice of stop-and-frisk, according to a lengthy report that alleges the department is unwilling to police ...

For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and brown men who experienced it physically and mentally scarred and distrustful of ...

The New York Police Department has dramatically reduced its use of stop-and-frisk since 2011, but the controversial policing practice once promoted by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg still affects ...

A dozen years ago, a federal judge ruled the NYPD’s practice of stopping, questioning and frisking New Yorkers by the hundreds of thousands to be unconstitutional — as the vast majority of stops, ...

New York City’s stop-and-frisk initiative, condemned and criticized for its presumed racial bias, led to the streetside interrogation of more than 5 million New Yorkers after its 2002 inception — ...

In his post about the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, Matthew McKnight writes, “The relationship between law enforcement and communities that the N.Y.P.D. has ...

NEWARK — New Jersey's largest police department will make public the race, gender and age of every person they stop and frisk in monthly reports under a new policy that the ACLU called "one of the ...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after ...