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The New York Police Department has dramatically reduced its use of stop-and-frisk since 2011, but the controversial policing practice once promoted by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg still affects ...

In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting policy, known ...

In the late 1980s, the United States experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk ...

Fighting crime in New York City—like in any large metropolis—comes with many challenges. There are more than eight million residents in the five boroughs, and many hundreds of thousands more people ...

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has named William J. Bratton his Police Commissioner. In returning to the job he held under Rudolph Giuliani in the nineteen-nineties, Bratton will be in charge of ...

Earlier this month, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin found New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policing practices unconstitutional, ordered immediate reforms and appointed a monitor ...

During the first presidential debate, both Hillary Clinton and moderator Lester Holt stated that the controversial police practice known as “stop-and-frisk” had been ruled unconstitutional in New York ...