The latest report from the federal monitor overseeing civil rights compliance at the New York Police Department points to a ...

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.

(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 ...

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 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.

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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 ...