Philadelphia’s city council president is floating the idea of using the controversial practice of stop and frisk to combat gun violence. Council president Darrell Clarke this week said there needs to ...

Donald Trump called for boosting controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing to curb inner-city violence Wednesday. “I would do stop and frisk. I think you have to. We did it in New York, it worked ...

Jazz Hayden might be the most unlikely character in the long-running controversy over the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk campaign, which has affected more than 4 million New Yorkers since 2004. The 70-year-old ...

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday the city will move to drop the appeal in the historic stop-and-frisk case. The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which has fought changes in stop-and-frisk ...

A decade has passed since the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) contentious stop-and-frisk policy was deemed unconstitutional. While it once symbolized New York policing during Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ...

The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge. By Benjamin Weiser and Maria Cramer At every level, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A lawsuit against the city of Chicago and Chicago police over the department's stop and frisk policy has been given class-action status. The law firm handling the lawsuit said that ...