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 ...

Trump made the comments at a Fox News town hall. — -- As Donald Trump courted African-American voters in Cleveland on Wednesday at a town hall taped by Fox News to air Thursday evening, he seemed ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is slamming Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s response to leaked audio from a 2015 speech in which he defended the Big Apple’s controversial ...

The GOP nominee called the program "incredible, the way that worked.” — -- Donald Trump has praised the policing tactic known as “stop and frisk” on the campaign trail, but the controversial ...

File photo: A police car drives through the Brooklyn borough of New York, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. The New York City police department reached a legal settlement Friday that requires it to abandon a ...

An infamous Manhattan judge turned arbitrator overstepped her bounds in a long-running legal battle over the Ramones, a former business manager for the iconic punk band claimed. Shira Scheindlin — who ...

The police practice of “stop, question and frisk,” or “stop-and-frisk” — randomly checking citizens for drugs or guns — was used heavily by New York City police starting in the 1990s to deter or stop ...

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. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...

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 ...

A federal judge ordered Monday that the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy be altered, finding that it violates the Constitution in part by unlawfully targeting blacks ...

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 ...