Gravestones typically serve as a memoriam of someone who has recently passed away and typically feature some facts and words about the individual. They tend to be very pleasant and emotional , making ...

The federal judge who ruled the NYPD''s stop and frisk policy violated civil rights says body cameras could have prevented the deaths of two men by police. Judge Shira Scheindlin ordered a pilot ...

MSNBC - The judge who ruled that New York’s “stop-and-frisk” practice violated the Constitutional rights of the city’s citizens seemed to have had Trayvon Martin on her mind... The judge who ruled ...

A Bronx police precinct commander who testified during the stop-and-frisk trial received a death threat, sources said. NYPD Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormack was secretly taped telling an officer ...

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 ...

A livery driver was shot and killed in Bedford-Stuyvesant Monday — prompting the head of the state’s taxi driver’s association to blame the attack on the cutback in the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics.

New York City’s “stop and frisk” policy has been halted by a court, and the best explanation of what this means – and meant – comes from Adam Serwer. “Living in fear” seemed to be exactly what ...

WASHINGTON — Racial disparities in DC Police's stop and frisk program haven't improved since they began publishing data last year. According to a WUSA9 analysis of the latest data, black people are ...

The judge who ruled that New York's "stop-and-frisk" practice violated the Constitutional rights of the city's citizens referenced the case of Trayvon Martin three times in her ruling, including ...