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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a Fox News interview Thursday, Donald Trump all but guaranteed that a victory for him in November would lead to increased use of stop and frisk, the police practice known to facilitate racial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stop-and-frisk was “very valuable” in driving down crime — and would likely help stem the gang violence that now plagues some neighborhoods, a former high-ranking NYPD official told The Post on Sunday ...

The anti-crime policy "stop, question, and frisk" (popularly known as stop-and-frisk) saves innocent lives and removes guns from the rough streets of America’s cities. Recently, audio from 2015 ...

A police car on 56th Street in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) This story is a part of the Every Voice, Every Vote series. Working on a solution to gun violence and want to share it? Get in touch ...

A new clip from a 2015 speech has resurfaced documenting former New York Mayor and current Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg's forceful defenses of stop-and-frisk practices as a ...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after ...