A City Council attorney said Tuesday that cops cannot challenge a stop-and-frisk law — because the five-month-old measure has never been tested in court. “Not one officer has been sued, not one,” ...

A Manhattan judge Wednesday tossed a police union’s challenge to a law that makes it easier for people who think they were racially profiled by cops before a stop-and-frisk to sue individual officers.

A monitor guiding reform of the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices has offered revisions to the police patrol guide so officers have a better understanding of the Fourth ...

Just over one-out-of-three voters favor a stop and frisk law like New York City’s and think such a law actually fights crime. The New York City law allows police to stop and frisk anyone on the street ...

Editor's Note: For a report from the End Stop and Frisk March on Father's Day in New York City, which drew 10,000 protesters against the law, see Mahlet Seyoum's live coverage here. Stop (Question) ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier of the CUNY School of Law argues that public opinion and litigation worked together to protect the constitutional rights of individuals in recent suits ...

One of the issues addressed during the first presidential debate between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was of ‘Stop and Frisk.’ ...

So says a NYPD memo that police sources said was issued to clarify what cops can and can’t do and to correct the misinformation that has become part of the dialogue concerning the controversial tactic ...

In 2011, nearly 700,000 people were stopped by the New York Police Department under the controversial tactic known as stop and frisk. Two years later, a judge ruled the city’s use of the program ...

Over the past month, stop-and-frisk has come to the forefront of the Democratic presidential race. The candidates have been quick to attack former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg for his relationship to ...