This story is from Stop and Frisk, a podcast production from WHYY News and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting Though only 40% of city residents are Black, the bloodshed ...

Shira Scheindlin, a U.S. District Court judge for the Southern District of New York, has ruled that New York City's "stop and frisk" policy violates the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equal ...

Stop-and-frisk searches force African-American males into an East Berlin-esque sense of oppression—while the rest of us go our merry ways without noticing. Proponents of stop-and-frisk often ...

Stop and frisk is a controversial policing practice that rose to prominence in New York City which supporters say saves lives by getting weapons off the streets, but critics say unfairly targets ...

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 ...

Or, as the Newark Police Department prefers to phrase it, “field inquiries.” “We don’t use stop-and-frisk,” the city’s police director, Samuel DeMaio, had explained to me before I ...

The widespread practice of stopping residents for what was deemed “suspicious” behavior, often called “stop-and-frisk,” was the defining tactic of the New York Police Department for a ...

It's been nearly a year since a court ruling curtailed the New York Police Department's controversial practice known as stop-and-frisk, but NYPD Commissioner William Bratton says the city can be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has risen, his growing presence on the trail and airwaves has renewed attention on the controversial program known as “stop-and-frisk,” which defined ...

This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of a landmark federal court decision that found the NYPD’s use of a controversial policing tactic known as “stop and frisk” routinely violated people ...

Judge Shira Scheindlin called the implementation of the so-called stop-and-frisk policy in New York, quote, a policy of indirect racial profiling. In a few minutes we'll hear from one of the ...