Stop-and-frisk numbers have plunged 80 percent in the past few months, in comparison with around this time last year, according to New York Police Department data, the Associated Press reports. For ...

A federal judge ruled that the contentious NYPD tactic known as stop-and-frisk violates constitutional rights, appointing a monitor to oversee reforms and ordering the department to test body cameras ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its contentious stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is ...

After a harsh rebuke from a federal judge who green-lit a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department over its stop-and-frisk tactics, police commissioner Ray Kelly said the program ...

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be changed in a speech on Sunday. Bloomberg spoke about the stop-and-frisk at the First Baptist Church in ...