Any angler will tell you: “If you want to catch fish, you have to go where the fish are.” The same is true when fishing for street crime. In the case of crack cocaine, you need to focus on ...

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 ...

Read about the podcast’s five episodes below. 1. How did we get here? “Stop and frisk” reemerged in public conversations in July 2022, when city council president Darrell Clarke surfaced the idea days ...

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.

Although New York City crime fell under former mayor Michael Bloomberg, the controversial police stop-and-frisk program was apparently not the key element in making the city safer.

So unfortunately, stop, question and frisk has become the flavor of the month, if you will," he says. "That anybody feels that's either the cause of the problem, or the solution, it is neither the ...

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 ...

Stop and frisk never actually went away in the city, but in recent years police had begun moving away from broad use of the practice. The shift began in 2010, when the Pennsylvania ACLU and a private ...

The New York Police Department has dramatically reduced its use of stop-and-frisk since 2011, but the policing practice still affects black and Latino New Yorkers at disproportionately high rates ...

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams reiterated support for “stop and frisk” in a new op-ed piece published Monday reacting to last week’s Thanksgiving Eve shooting that wounded two officers.