Today in New York City, use of stop-and-frisk, which the department justified via the 1968 Terry v. Ohio Supreme Court ruling, has crashed. Yet the statistics are clear: Crime is lower than ever.

Stop and frisk, a contentious policing practice that Philadelphia mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker says she’ll consider implementing if elected, is being used illegally in New York City, according to ...

New York City is appealing a federal judge’s finding that the police department’s stop-and-frisk searches violate ... unreasonable searches, based on statistics showing police made at least ...

In 2013, a federal judge determined that the policy of stop-and-frisk in New York City was discriminatory and unconstitutional. The city challenged the ruling, but the transition to the new mayor ...

A judge in New York City is holding hearings on the controversial NYPD practice known as stop-and-frisk. This case focuses only on stops that take place in privately-owned apartment buildings.

The New Republic has circled back to one of the hottest debates in 2013 politics (thanks to New York City having a somewhat interesting mayoral election): the effectiveness of stop-and-frisk as a ...

The recent ruling against stop-and-frisk has emboldened the city’s pistol-packing perps ... according to NYPD statistics. Sources blamed the disturbing trends on Scheindlin’s ruling, which ...

Making good on a campaign promise, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will drop an appeal challenging a judge's opinion that found the city's controversial "stop and frisk" practices ...

they’re just not called stop-and-frisk,” said Sharon Stapel, executive director of of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. What Happens Without Stop-and-Frisk? “No question about it ...

One decade ago this summer, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s abusive stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. Three mayors and six police commissioners later, the ...