Stop-and-frisk was deployed in New York City some 686,000 times at the peak in 2011, dropped sharply in 2012–2013, the last couple of years of the Mike Bloomberg administration, and plummeted to ...

Even if New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy were effective, that wouldn’t make it constitutional. Photo courtesy Runs With Scissors/Flickr via Creative Commons ...

But stop-and-frisk is different: because it is so pervasive in areas of the city, so likely to happen to those who look a certain way, the program itself may end up being its own undoing.

The question of whether stop-and-frisk is constitutional has (for now) been settled. Whether the policy works to reduce violent crime is another question entirely. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ...

One of the biggest stories in America's biggest city this year has been the public debate about the NYPD's "stop-and-frisk" tactic. The general idea is that officers can stop someone if there's a ...

Most importantly, the judge found that the police targeted minorities with its stop-and-frisk tactics. In fifty-two per cent of the 4.4 million stops, the person stopped was black, in thirty-one ...

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.

NYPD unwilling to punish officers for stop and frisk, report finds 02:12. NEW YORK -- The NYPD is essentially letting officers off the hook for using the banned practice of stop-and-frisk ...