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 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 ...

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s police watchdog is raising alarm over what it calls a systemic failure by the Metropolitan Police Department to properly document stop-and-frisk encounters, a lapse that violates ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is slamming Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s response to leaked audio from a 2015 speech in which he defended the Big Apple’s controversial ...

Responding to a POLITICO New York report that cast doubt on his claim that he reduced the New York Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk from its peak in 2011 — two years before he took office — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trymaine Lee: On a Sunday in mid-November, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a car out of Manhattan across the East River to the outer limits of Brooklyn. He had an appearance ...

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 ...