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 ...

An appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Thursday to Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin — unanimously booting her from cases involving stop-and-frisk, calling into question her impartiality ...

Fewer guns were seized in the city in 2014 than in any other year since 2006, a new report says — and law enforcement sources blame the dismal figure on the decrease in stop-and-frisks. City ...

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 ...

Earlier this month a federal judge held that New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy violates the Fourth and 14 th Amendment rights of African-Americans and Hispanics targeted under the policy. Civil ...

During the taping of a Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity on Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he is open to a nationwide “stop and frisk” policy because it “worked ...

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 ...

The Police Department’s controversial use of the stop, question and frisk procedure has generated a tremendous amount of debate, with some accusing the NYPD of targeting young men of color and others ...

In Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump reiterated his call for “law and order” in America. “We need law and order. If we don’t have it,” the Republican candidate said, darkly, “we’re not going to have ...

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 policy, known ...