Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk policing. Crime declines followed, and voters applauded. Time has not been kind to the ...

Update: During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump again argued that stop-and-frisk was an effective deterrent in New York, and that the policy hadn't been ruled unconstitutional.

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 ...

Attorney General Loretta Lynch publicly questioned the wisdom of broad-based stop-and-frisk policies as a crime-fighting tool Thursday, in the wake of comments from Donald Trump urging use of the ...

In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting ...

“Despite the decline in stops, there’s been practically no progress in the racial disparity,” said Michelle Shames, a co-author of the report, “Stop and Frisk in the de Blasio Era ...

This story is from Stop and Frisk, a podcast production from WHYY News and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get ...

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 ...

Gbenga Akinnagbe, an actor who played a murderous sidekick to a ruthless drug dealer on HBO’s “The Wire,” will be honored for his advocacy against stop-and-frisk, at an event next month ...