NEW YORK -- Michael Bloomberg on Sunday apologized for his longstanding support of the controversial "stop-and-frisk" police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a practice that ...

Wednesday night, at an event billed as a town hall to discuss the concerns of African Americans, Republican nominee Donald Trump called for nationally implementing the police practice known as “stop ...

Eight years after a judge ruled New York City police violated the constitution by stopping, questioning and frisking mostly Black and Hispanic people on the street en masse, people in communities most ...

(The Root) — New York City’s stop-and-frisk program has exploded by 600 percent under Mayor Michael Bloomberg — garnering outrage from critics who believe that the practice forces black and Latino ...

(The Root) — Stop and frisk is a controversial term, mostly associated with New York City, but New Yorkers aren’t the only ones battling racial profiling by law enforcement. “Mayor Bloomberg and ...

Writing in The New York Times, Nicholas K. Peart recounts what it feels like to be a young black man in New York in the age of controversial stop-and-frisk policing. From a young age, he has acted on ...

A federal judge’s landmark decision on the Bloomberg Administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk policing policy is shining a spotlight on the mayoral candidates at a time when the public is just ...

In an immediate response to the recent police shootings stemming from minor traffic stops, many police departments in the southeast Michigan are utilizing every resource possible to combat such ...

But the best visualization of the stop-and-frisk program isn't exactly a map. BKLYNR's "All the Stops" feature shows stop-and-frisk data independent of its geography. While sacrificing a sense of ...

Only Tilson said he was open to the policy, which has been deemed unlawful if officers lack reasonable suspicion that a person is armed and dangerous or see a possible weapon. Michael Blake: No. It’s ...

An infamous Manhattan judge turned arbitrator overstepped her bounds in a long-running legal battle over the Ramones, a former business manager for the iconic punk band claimed. Shira Scheindlin — who ...