(Reuters) - A New York civil liberties leader called Thursday for the police department to sharpen the language it uses to train officers on its stop-and-frisk policy, to prevent unconstitutional ...

As part of the defense of the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk, City attorneys played an NYPD training video in court last week. The nine-minute video instructs officers to use "sharp observation skills" ...

Before testing out the NYPD’s new stop-and-frisk training program, focus groups of cops said they had no problem using the controversial tactic — but they feared their bosses wouldn’t have their backs ...

As the debate over stop-and-frisk reaches a critical point, something nobody expected is happening on the city streets. Homicide is down another full 25% over last year, and street stops are also down ...

A Manhattan judge Wednesday tossed a police union’s challenge to a law that makes it easier for people who think they were racially profiled by cops before a stop-and-frisk to sue individual officers.

Every /*NYPD*/ officer will be required to take this new 8-hour course on how to professionally and legally conduct the stops. This after a growing outcry over hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers ...

On Saturday night, members of City Hall and the journalists who are paid to maintain an adversarial relationship with City Hall engaged in their annual display of public onanism. As part of the Inner ...

DETROIT (WWJ) The courts recently struck down the practice in New York, but Detroit Police Chief James Craig has announced he wants officers to "stop and frisk" anyone police find suspicious. Before ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Below, we explain what stop-and-frisk is and how it has been ...

Stopping men for hanging around a corner. A report released Tuesday morning indicates that one out of four of the 140,000 stops police officers carried out in 2016 did not meet the legal standard for ...