The controversial stop-and-frisk policy instituted by the New York Police Department in 1999 allowed law enforcement to stop any civilian on the street and search their person and belongings. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Monday, speaking at a convention for the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Orlando, Florida, President Trump called for a renewed policy of “stop and frisk.” He told his audience ...

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, crime in New York City has declined for the nineteenth straight year. In 2009, crime fell citywide, across nearly all categories. If crime goes down ...

(Special to The Root) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently made a disturbing revelation about the New York City Police Department’s policy of stopping pedestrians and forcibly searching ...

In 2011, nearly 700,000 people were stopped by the New York Police Department under the controversial tactic known as stop and frisk. Two years later, a judge ruled the city’s use of the program ...

An attempt to change the narrative, with data. The data release, which PPD research director Kevin Thomas called “courageous,” feels like a big deal for two reasons. It’s an example of the city ...

During Michael R. Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor of New York City, police officers stopped and questioned people they believed to be engaged in criminal activity on the street more than 5 million times.

"I was going to the store for my mother. And then when I came out the building I see my uncle and he's coming from the way I'm going and we walk back to the store. And they [the police] just pulled up ...

HOW A CASE FROM A DECADE AGO IS SPARKING THIS DISCUSSION. >> WE CAN REMEMBER ATTH CEAS AND WE COULD SAY THAT PITTSBURGH POCELI ACTUALLY STOP AND FRISK THOUSANDS OF PEDESTRIANS ERYVE YEAR WITHOUT A ...