stop and frisk

A new report found the city's stop-and-frisk rate has plummeted—but affects more people of color than whites.

Years after stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional, a new report says many beat cops in the NYPD are clueless.

Is this going to be the end of New York's most controversial policing practice?

Today it was revealed that a number of Wikipedia entries were edited by users inside NYPD headquarters, who had opinions on everything from Derek Jeter to Barry Manilow.

According to them, I was stopped because of my "lack of personal hygiene and dirty clothes."

We talked to Philip Eure, the man charged with reforming the country's largest police force.

We talked to the documentarian behind a new film about the national embarrassment that is the NYPD's routine hassling of young black and Hispanic men.

After decades of arresting people for having weed on the streets of New York, the NYPD is ready to change its tune. But don't get TOO excited—we're a long way from legal marijuana.

The cops in New York City are stationing officers and floodlights in high-crime housing projects.

The Detroit Police Department has come a long way since the days when its cops were the deadliest in America. But the DPD's "broken windows" tactics are just excessive force in another form.

Broken Windows policing targets racial minorities.

Twenty percent of America's homeless youth are gay or trans.