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 ...

In an update to his criminal justice campaign platform on his website, the convicted felon called for the return of the controversial practice of “stop-and-frisk” by the New York City Police ...

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 ...

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This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of a landmark federal court decision that found the NYPD’s use of a controversial policing tactic known as “stop and frisk” routinely violated people ...

Despite what you might hear from some candidates for mayor and city council, one policing tactic that has proven a failure time and again in bolstering public safety is so-called stop-and-frisk.

The crisis has led some city leaders and community members to reconsider the idea of “stop and frisk,” a decades-old policy that gives police officers discretion to stop anyone they believe has ...

This has led Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke to consider a return to using the practice of stop and frisk to reduce soaring crime. Democrats in the city and throughout the ...

“We have a lot of citizens in the streets of Philadelphia talking about ‘When are we going to look at stop-and-frisk in a constitutionally enacted way?’ ” Council President Darrell ...

In 1968, in the midst of national strife over race and policing, the Supreme Court endorsed police stop-and-frisk but placed important limits on its use. Five decades later, lower courts continue ...

A landmark federal court ruling eight years ago was supposed to put an end to the New York Police Department regime of racially targeted harassment known as stop-and-frisk. The people who won that ...

Mayoral candidates spoke of stop-and-frisk as a relic of a bygone era, but for many New Yorkers, police stops never really ended. Last week, as a crowded field of mayoral candidates sparred about ...