The New York Police Department agreed Thursday to further cut back stop-and-frisk tactics – even as city investigators were using data gleaned from the practice to arrest the man now accused in a ...

Dister says he has frequently been approached by police officers in situations where he did not feel free to leave. But those encounters likely did not show up in the official tally of 'stops.' One ...

A legal group that fought the landmark civil-rights case in which the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies were found to be racially discriminatory and unconstitutional is once again ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Stop-and-frisk came up in last night’s debate: TRUMP: Now, whether or not in a place ...

The much-criticized, historically racist policing tactic never actually went away, but in recent years officials had decried it and the city had moved away from its broad use. Community groups working ...

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert zinged billionaire 2020 candidate Mike Bloomberg over stop-and-frisk on Thursday night. Colbert noted a recent Politico article about a Quinnipiac University poll ...

The New York City Police Department credits its controversial "Stop, Question, Frisk" program with significantly reducing violent crimes. Many civil liberties groups, though, warn that the police ...

Stops by NYPD officers have plummeted in recent years, but racial disparities in who gets stopped still exist, according to a report filed Tuesday by a federal monitor overseeing the NYPD. An in-depth ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly championed stop-and-frisk policing, but on Tuesday the president and his 2020 campaign manager condemned Michael Bloomberg as "racist" over the practice as a ...

As with many topics, Donald Trump doesn’t know much about the policing policy widely known as stop-and-frisk, but that doesn’t deter him one bit from Trump-splaining it to us with unbridled ...

We have stop-and-frisk in Philadelphia since 2008. And in that year, the murder rater went down only 15 percent, and then it's been creeping back up since. And it's now, you know, it was at high in ...