With stop-and-frisk settled, school policing is target of a continuing lawsuit accusing officers of abuses
stop and frisk
The confounding decades-old legal case behind stop-and-frisk has left boundaries open to NYPD discretion — but for how long?
Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City’s 50 most frequent locations for police stops
Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to a lawsuit condemning the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices. Her decision comes in a 2008 suit filed by four men claiming their fourth amendment constitutional rights were compromised by the NYPD, and allows thousands more plaintiffs to take part in the legal challenge. The […]
The NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy is failing in the very area it was designed to target — gun control — according to new analysis released by the New York Civil Liberties Union today. The detailed interrogation of the police department’s own stop-and-frisk records indicates a record 685,724 people were stopped and frisked by […]
Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police
Only 13 percent of the 4.3 million stops made by city police in the last decade have led to an arrest or summons
At an event to resolve unpaid summonses, Brooklyn residents attest to the toll of police interrogations
Fewer than 6 percent of those stopped this summer were arrested
