Stop and frisk is a controversial policing practice that rose to prominence in New York City which supporters say saves lives by getting weapons off the streets, but critics say unfairly targets ...

The number-crunchers at WNYC added a new data set to the ongoing debate around New York City's controversial stop-and-frisk policy. They released a map detailing the more than 685,000 stops made by ...

The NYPD continues to violate a court order by underreporting the rate that cops use controversial stop-and-frisk practices, a federal monitor says. In a 169-page status report filed Friday in ...

Chicago police stop and frisk a man near the scene of a shooting on Oct. 6, 2015. That year, Chicago police were stopping four times as many people per capita as New York City’s police. (Antonio Perez ...

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 ...

The Police Department’s controversial use of the stop, question and frisk procedure has generated a tremendous amount of debate, with some accusing the NYPD of targeting young men of color and others ...

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 the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting policy, known ...

Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing practice to be instituted nationwide as a means of combating violent crime in America’s inner cities. In a pre-taped ...

The GOP nominee called the program "incredible, the way that worked.” — -- Donald Trump has praised the policing tactic known as “stop and frisk” on the campaign trail, but the controversial ...