It would come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the jurisprudence of federal Judge Shira Scheindlin that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals would stay her ruling against New York City in the ...

NEW YORK — In a manila envelope on the table in front of Marlene Steele are hundreds of letters from businesses, churches and foundations politely rejecting her request for help to fund a gun buy-back ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is slamming Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s response to leaked audio from a 2015 speech in which he defended the Big Apple’s controversial ...

After weeks of campaigning as the “law and order” candidate, Donald Trump has promised to bring back stop-and-frisk. Pressed by a voter at a town hall-style discussion in Ohio to explain how he will ...

Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday that instituting stop-and-frisk policing – like the kind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for – could be a potential impingement on Constitutional ...

NEW YORK -- The NYPD is essentially letting officers off the hook for using the banned practice of stop-and-frisk, according to a lengthy report that alleges the department is unwilling to police ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- In a first-of-its kind analysis, a report from the New York Attorney General's office found that just 1.5 percent of stop-and-frisk arrests resulted in a jail or prison ...

Donald Trump's suggestion this week that police need to stop-and-frisk people more frequently rekindled a raging debate over aggressive law enforcement tactics and its impact on the public's troubled ...

The anti-crime policy "stop, question, and frisk" (popularly known as stop-and-frisk) saves innocent lives and removes guns from the rough streets of America’s cities. Recently, audio from 2015 ...

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and after ...

Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the controversial “stop-and-frisk” policing practice to be instituted nationwide as a means of combating violent crime in America’s inner cities. In a pre-taped ...