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 ...

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A decade has passed since the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) contentious stop-and-frisk policy was deemed unconstitutional. While it once symbolized New York policing during Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ...

Chicago police stop and frisk a man near the scene of a shooting on Oct. 6, 2015. That year, Chicago police were stopping four times as many people per capita as New York City’s police. (Antonio Perez ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well boys and girls, a few more shootings and a stabbing or two. Have you had enough yet? Stop-and-frisk doesn’t seem all that bad when you consider it might have saved the lives of a few more people.

The ruling makes clear, however, that cops can still stop and frisk a person for existing while Black. People hold up a sign during a protest in Philadelphia. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...