Stop-and-frisk searches, one of the most controversial police tactics of recent years and a hallmark crime-fighting tactic of the Giuliani-era, are under scrutiny again. Investigators for the Civilian ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

The state’s high court Monday ruled that people arrested after a pat-and-frisk search on the street have the right to challenge a resulting criminal prosecution on the grounds that they may have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The NYPD reached a legal settlement Friday that requires it to abandon a practice in which officers use prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants and ties to other cases, a ...

"Should crime rise as a result of limiting 'stop-and-frisk', the most victimized will be from the same community as those whose civil liberties the judge sought to protect," says Hardball guest host ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. man has agreed to settle a lawsuit against a Metropolitan Police Department officer over an unconstitutional and “exceedingly invasive” anal search during a stop-and-frisk ...

At her first public appearance after winning the Democratic nomination for Philadelphia’s next mayor, Cherelle Parker clarified her stance on the controversial policing practice stop and frisk. “There ...