stop and frisk

The intensive use of policing by crime statistics and stop-and-frisk is critiqued by three police experts.

Bill de Blasio won the mayoralty of New York by running a demagogic campaign against the New York Police Department and against stop-and-frisk. De Blasio may thus have paved the way for a return to the days of sky-high crime rates.

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio will be sworn into office on Jan. 1 after securing a historic victory in the mayoral election. Bold, progressive promises helped deliver his sweeping victory. De Blasio will head into his first few months as mayor with a head full of steam ...

The mayoral election in 2013 will be remembered for a lot of things, but no issue proved to be more influential than stop and frisk.

A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge’s order requiring changes to the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge from the case.

With just four days remaining until the primary, Democratic mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has put her campaign in ground game mode. With picturesque weather on Friday, Quinn spent much of the day in northern Manhattan at subway stops and senior centers garnering support for the Sept. 10 vote.

New York City Council overrode Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto on Aug. 22, bringing sweeping changes into law that will reform the controversial police practice of stop, question, and frisk.

Against the backdrop of the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech on the ideals of racial justice, minority communities in New York City area readying themselves for a City Council mayoral veto override vote on the crime-fighting tactic used by police known as stop and frisk.

A City Council vote on the controversial New York Police Department practice known as stop, question, and frisk will be held on Thursday, Aug. 22. The City Council will be voting on a set of measures known collectively as the Community Safety Act (CSA).

On Tuesday, Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson became the first to outline how his administration would deal with the controversial police practice of stop and frisk. The practice has received heavy criticism from all of the Democratic mayoral candidates.

NEW YORK—Standing flanked by two tables filled with guns, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced the largest seizure of illegal guns in New York City history.

New York’s police commissioner Raymond Kelly said he understands the sensitivity for minority communities of the controversial stop-and-frisk police practice, but doesn’t support changing it.

NEW YORK—A long-awaited federal judge’s ruling on the constitutionality of New York City’s stop-and-frisk police practice Aug. 12 took into account extensive evidence and was over 200 pages long.

NEW YORK—A New York City trial lawyer, Peter Zimroth, has been appointed by a federal judge to monitor the New York Police Department’s practice of stop-and-frisk.

Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said if elected, he would not continue an appeal in the Monday, Aug. 12 stop-and-frisk ruling.

After a federal judge ruled that New York’s stop-and-frisk policy violated basic rights, Mayoral candidates and City Council members made these statements: