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 ...

The controversial stop-and-frisk policy instituted by the New York Police Department in 1999 allowed law enforcement to stop any civilian on the street and search their person and belongings. The ...

WASHINGTON - A neighborhood leader in Washington, DC Is accusing members of the DC Metropolitan Police Department of violating resident’s civil rights by unconstitutionally searching them for weapons ...

In the late 1980s, the United States experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk ...

"I just got stopped like two blocks ago," said a frustrated Harlem teenager to the two police officers who approached him. This is the first recorded audio of a New York City "stop and frisk" recorded ...

In New York City, the country's largest police force has been involved in a high-profile legal battle over its stop-and-frisk policy. Few policies of outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have ...

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 ...

“In Chicago, they’ve had thousands of shootings. … Stop and frisk worked very well … it brought the crime way down [in New York City].” –Donald Trump THE FACT CHECKER | Trump cherry-picks the increase ...

WASHINGTON — Racial disparities in DC Police's stop and frisk program haven't improved since they began publishing data last year. According to a WUSA9 analysis of the latest data, black people are ...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after ...