As all the world now knows, Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy amounts to “a policy of indirect racial profiling” that violates the U.S.

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 ...

For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and brown men who experienced it physically and mentally scarred and distrustful of ...

The ruling makes clear, however, that cops can still stop and frisk a person for existing while Black. People hold up a sign during a protest in Philadelphia. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...

The police practice of “stop, question and frisk,” or “stop-and-frisk” — randomly checking citizens for drugs or guns — was used heavily by New York City police starting in the 1990s to deter or stop ...

In mid-November, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized publicly for his backing of a practice intended to reduce violent crime that had for years been criticized as racially biased. ...