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 ...

Trump praises stop-and-frisk policies under former New York City mayor Rudolph Guliani. But it’s debatable whether the stop-and-frisk policies had such a direct impact on crime, as Trump suggests.

Conservative pundit Kyle Smith has a piece over at National Review with a simple admission: “We Were Wrong About Stop-and-Frisk.” Smith looks at the controversial use of stop-and-frisk, an ...

Stop-and-frisk has survived for as long as it has because the disenfranchised ... Yet Scheindlin found that “if the CCRB bases its findings on a credibility determination in favor of a ...

But with more than 2 million Black men having experienced stop-and-frisk, even some Black conservatives who support Trump — like Shelley Wynter, a New Yorker who lives in Atlanta — say they ...

A frisk is a pat-down, and is not supposed to involve searching a person’s bags or other items. The practice was vigorously used during the ’90s and 2000s. Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter ...

ATLANTA, GA— Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, and the Southern Center for Human Rights filed Coronell, et al. v. Georgia, a class action ...

In the last two weeks, some Americans have heard more about a controversial New York City Police Department tactic — “stop and frisk” — than possibly ever before. A whole host of ...

During the first presidential debate, both Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt stated that the controversial police practice known as “stop-and-frisk” had been ruled unconstitutional in ...