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 ...

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 ...

For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and ...

Get in touch with gun violence prevention reporters Sammy Caiola and Sam Searles. Stop and frisk, a contentious policing practice that Philadelphia mayoral candidate Cherelle Parker says she’ll ...

Below, we explain what stop-and-frisk is and how it has been used in Philadelphia. Then we describe those critically important controls. In Philadelphia, stop-and-frisk gained a foothold in the 1990s.

For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and brown men who experienced it physically and mentally scarred and ...

One decade ago this summer, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s abusive stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. Three mayors and six police commissioners later, the ...

Whitney Tilson: I oppose the widespread, unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk. Used very narrowly, however, it can be an effective policing tool to reduce crime. The practice is still down 96% ...

The NYPD monitor, in place more than a decade after a federal judge said officers abused the stop and frisk tactic, violating the constitutional rights of minorities, has cost taxpayers $36 ...

That is when, faced with public pressure, the Chicago Police Department formally agreed to back away from another controversial tactic known as "stop-and-frisk," where people are searched on the ...

I hope that the stop-and-frisk of Luigi Magione, which apparently is what it was, meets the U.S. Supreme Court’s criteria of reasonable suspicion and articulable justification for confronting an ...