Eight years after a judge ruled New York City police violated the constitution by stopping, questioning and frisking mostly Black and Hispanic people on the street en masse, people in communities most ...

The New York City Police Department’s “stop and frisk” policy has been the subject of public debate in recent weeks. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed that the practice — in which cops ...

In 2013, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin issued a ruling which effectively dismantled the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) racist stop-and-frisk policy. Scheindlin’s decision, in the class action ...

New York City Police Department released new data to the City Council earlier this month revealed there were 684,330 stop-and-frisks in 2011--close to 90% of those stopped were black and Latino.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs in New York City's stop-and-frisk court cases say the city and the plaintiffs have reached an agreement for a monitor to oversee reforms of the police tactic.

On Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made good on his campaign pledge to step forward and try to solve the gridlock between the New York City Police Department and civil rights lawyers and ...