There would be more black police officers in New York if so many black people weren’t criminals, NYPD police commissioner Bill Bratton said in an interview published on Tuesday that quickly sparked ...

A federal judge ruled that the contentious NYPD tactic known as stop-and-frisk violates constitutional rights, appointing a monitor to oversee reforms and ordering the department to test body cameras ...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner won a massive victory on Thursday as an appeals court issued a stay on an order halting the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk program.

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 ...

In an opinion addressing the ongoing debate over the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policies, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, yesterday reversed a ...

Stop and frisk policy has been struck down, but Bloomberg says it works. Guns seized by the New York Police Department (NYPD), in the largest seizure of illegal guns in the city's history, are ...

(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 ...

In 2013, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin issued a ruling which effectively dismantled the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) racist stop-and-frisk policy. Scheindlin’s decision, in the class action ...

Anonymous edits to Wikipedia pages that deal with the New York Police Department have been traced to computers on NYPD servers. The edits have appeared in entries on pages like the “Death of Eric ...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been notoriously tough on guns, which is understandable when you consider 61% of the city’s homicides in 2010 were gun-related. But frisking people on the ...