In August, community advocates stood alongside two teenage students in the Bronx who said they were unfairly stopped by police officers. Alongside advocates and their families, the teens, who are ...

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will file court papers tomorrow urging a federal judge to keep the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk monitor in place while the Bloomberg administration appeals the ruling.

The widespread practice of stopping residents for what was deemed “suspicious” behavior, often called “stop-and-frisk,” was the defining tactic of the New York Police Department for a decade, pursued ...

Police in Newark, New Jersey, are changing the way they do business. On Tuesday, the city council approved an order to overhaul their stop-and-frisk program in order to boost transparency and ensure ...

"I was going to the store for my mother. And then when I came out the building I see my uncle and he's coming from the way I'm going and we walk back to the store. And they [the police] just pulled up ...

MSNBC – On Monday morning, a judge found New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional, insisting that the city assumed a policy of “indirect racial profiling.” Later that day ...

An independent federal monitor tasked with reviewing the NYPD’s compliance with stop and frisk protocols said the department “has made significant strides” in meeting the court’s requirements since ...

Wannabe president and former Mayor Bloomberg said he deployed “all the cops in minority neighborhoods” because that’s where they’ll find “all the crime” while defending “stop-and-frisk” in 2015, ...

The number of stop-and-frisks by the NYPD has fallen to a record low. In 2011, the NYPD said it used the tactic a record 700,000 times. After a public outcry and a successful constitutional challenge, ...

Rapper and New York native, Talib Kweli joined Monday's All In to discuss his reaction to Monday's stop-and-frisk ruling. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy On ...