New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio viciously tore into Donald Trump after the Republican nominee touted the city's former stop-and-frisk policy as a means of stopping black-on-black crime. Trump is ...

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 ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - Days after a federal judge reinstated claims that New York City police illegally searched a black man as part of a stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union released a ...

While the racial bias in New York City's mostly abolished "Stop and Frisk" policing program became well-known, a new report indicates that the Chicago police employ the practice far more often than ...

One decade ago this summer, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s abusive stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. Three mayors and six police commissioners later, the ...

Fewer guns were seized in the city in 2014 than in any other year since 2006, a new report says — and law enforcement sources blame the dismal figure on the decrease in stop-and-frisks. City ...

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 ...

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