WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. man has agreed to settle a lawsuit against a Metropolitan Police Department officer over an unconstitutional and “exceedingly invasive” anal search during a stop-and-frisk ...

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s police watchdog is raising alarm over what it calls a systemic failure by the Metropolitan Police Department to properly document stop-and-frisk encounters, a lapse that violates ...

NEW YORK -- Michael Bloomberg on Sunday apologized for his longstanding support of the controversial "stop-and-frisk" police strategy ahead of a potential Democratic presidential run, a practice that ...

A federal district court finding in New York has spurred a national conversation about police “stop-and-frisk” practices ruled unconstitutional by the judge. Even though the judge referred to it in ...

In an immediate response to the recent police shootings stemming from minor traffic stops, many police departments in the southeast Michigan are utilizing every resource possible to combat such ...

(The Root) — Stop and frisk is a controversial term, mostly associated with New York City, but New Yorkers aren’t the only ones battling racial profiling by law enforcement. “Mayor Bloomberg and ...

(The Root) — New York City’s stop-and-frisk program has exploded by 600 percent under Mayor Michael Bloomberg — garnering outrage from critics who believe that the practice forces black and Latino ...

Writing in The New York Times, Nicholas K. Peart recounts what it feels like to be a young black man in New York in the age of controversial stop-and-frisk policing. From a young age, he has acted on ...

Circuit Rejects Police Union Role in 'Stop and Frisk' New York City police unions protesting the city's agreement to settle lawsuits on stop-and-frisk practices waited too long before trying to insert ...

New York City police officers stopped and questioned more than 200,000 people in the just the first three months of 2012, setting up a record pace for much criticized tactic. The "Stop, Question, ...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been notoriously tough on guns, which is understandable when you consider 61% of the city’s homicides in 2010 were gun-related. But frisking people on the ...