The New York Police Department agreed Thursday to further cut back stop-and-frisk tactics – even as city investigators were using data gleaned from the practice to arrest the man now accused in a ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Stop-and-frisk came up in last night’s debate: TRUMP: Now, whether or not in a place ...

A legal group that fought the landmark civil-rights case in which the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies were found to be racially discriminatory and unconstitutional is once again ...

The much-criticized, historically racist policing tactic never actually went away, but in recent years officials had decried it and the city had moved away from its broad use. Community groups working ...

Dister says he has frequently been approached by police officers in situations where he did not feel free to leave. But those encounters likely did not show up in the official tally of 'stops.' One ...

The New York City Police Department credits its controversial "Stop, Question, Frisk" program with significantly reducing violent crimes. Many civil liberties groups, though, warn that the police ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly championed stop-and-frisk policing, but on Tuesday the president and his 2020 campaign manager condemned Michael Bloomberg as "racist" over the practice as a ...

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert zinged billionaire 2020 candidate Mike Bloomberg over stop-and-frisk on Thursday night. Colbert noted a recent Politico article about a Quinnipiac University poll ...

As with many topics, Donald Trump doesn’t know much about the policing policy widely known as stop-and-frisk, but that doesn’t deter him one bit from Trump-splaining it to us with unbridled ...

Robert Gangi is the director the Police Reform Organizing Project at the Urban Justice Center. July 17, 2012 An aggressively enforced quota system, the main N.Y.P.D. tool for evaluating officers' ...