Philadelphia’s plans to expand its use of police-operated drones signals a pivotal shift in how the city seeks to protect – and surveil – its citizens. According to the city’s Citizen Police Oversight ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A D.C. man has agreed to settle a lawsuit against a Metropolitan Police Department officer over an unconstitutional and “exceedingly invasive” anal search during a stop-and-frisk ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

While the NYPD has made significant efforts to investigate police misconduct in general over the years, discipline of police officers for substantiated allegations of illegal stop, question and frisk ...

An ardent supporter of this controversial policy will advise the Oakland police. Jan. 25, 2013 — -- Former NYC police commissioner Bill Bratton is an unapologetic advocate of the NYPD's ...

The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge. By Benjamin Weiser and Maria Cramer At every level, ...

Conservative media have spent years pushing misleading claims that the New York City Police Department’s intrusive and discriminatory stop-and-frisk policy was crucial to reducing local crime. Over ...

Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity and encourage the use ...

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 ...