A federal district court finding in New York has spurred a national conversation about police “stop-and-frisk” practices ruled unconstitutional by the judge. Even though the judge referred to it in ...

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 ...

At the Nation, Mychal Denzel Smith says that a viral video of white Philadelphia police officers harassing black pedestrians highlights the inherent problems in stop and frisk and underscores a larger ...

The night shift, hovering bosses, poor work evaluations — officer Pedro Serrano told the Washington Post that he’s suffered all of these things for speaking out against the New York Police ...

Meanwhile, despite evidence to the contrary, police supervisors found that just 1% of those stops were unconstitutional. “We are not here to tell the department how it should police, but we are here ...

There would be more black police officers in New York if so many black people weren’t criminals, NYPD police commissioner Bill Bratton said in an interview published on Tuesday that quickly sparked ...

The NYPD doesn’t adequately punish cops who conduct unconstitutional street stops, a practice that goes back years, according to a scathing 503-page report released Monday. The report was prepared by ...

Former President Donald Trump called for gun confiscation in cities during a rant on Fox News demanding cops “stop and frisk, and take their gun away.” In a lengthy rant about crime in the city, Trump ...

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.(Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto via Getty ...

Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity and encourage the use ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...