NEW ORLEANS — This week, Senator John Kennedy called for the city of New Orleans to allow NOPD to use stop-and-frisk to prevent crime. We’re going to take a look at those statements and what’s already ...

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 ...

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City Councilman Peter Vallone offered an interesting claim in yesterday’s tab. He said a stop-and-frisk bill being considered by the council could cost the city $1 billion a year. We think he might be ...

Philadelphia has for several years been moving away from the much-criticized, historically racist policing tactic known as “stop and frisk.” But with violent crime rates stubbornly high, constituents ...

Update: It turns out that the tenth time was the charm for the four defendants who have been fighting charges stemming from their arrests during a stop-and-frisk protest in Brooklyn in November 2011.

New York City said Thursday it would drop its appeal of a court ruling that it reform the police’s controversial stop-and-frisk program, potentially ending a protracted legal and political battle that ...

The New York City Police Department’s “stop and frisk” policy has been the subject of public debate in recent weeks. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed that the practice — in which cops ...