NEW YORK -- Michael Bloomberg on Sunday apologized for his longstanding support of the controversial "stop-and-frisk" police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a practice that ...

Wednesday night, at an event billed as a town hall to discuss the concerns of African Americans, Republican nominee Donald Trump called for nationally implementing the police practice known as “stop ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

But the best visualization of the stop-and-frisk program isn't exactly a map. BKLYNR's "All the Stops" feature shows stop-and-frisk data independent of its geography. While sacrificing a sense of ...

R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy says in Ebony that the New York City Police Department’s policy of stop and frisk won’t stop until people across the city participate in changing the status quo. Fortunately, ...

In a Fox News interview Thursday, Donald Trump all but guaranteed that a victory for him in November would lead to increased use of stop and frisk, the police practice known to facilitate racial ...

(The Root) — In a pair of rulings announced Monday morning, a federal judge found that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics violated the constitutional rights of the city’s ...

NEW YORK — In a manila envelope on the table in front of Marlene Steele are hundreds of letters from businesses, churches and foundations politely rejecting her request for help to fund a gun buy-back ...

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NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 12: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (3rd R) leaves a press conference with New York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Ray Kelly (2nd R) after addressing New York Police ...