(The Root) — Stop and frisk is a controversial term, mostly associated with New York City, but New Yorkers aren’t the only ones battling racial profiling by law enforcement. “Mayor Bloomberg and ...

(The Root) — On Monday, federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional, but to thousands of the city’s black and ...

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s police watchdog is raising alarm over what it calls a systemic failure by the Metropolitan Police Department to properly document stop-and-frisk encounters, a lapse that violates ...

A series of lawsuits were filed against the city, charging that a system that resulted in targeting of people of color who had committed no crime suggested some bias. This spring a federal judge (the ...

Good policing doesn’t depend on violating rights. It depends on professionalism, fairness and community trust.

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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be changed in a speech on Sunday. Bloomberg spoke about the stop-and-frisk at the First Baptist Church in ...