In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting policy, known ...

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NEW YORK — In a manila envelope on the table in front of Marlene Steele are hundreds of letters from businesses, churches and foundations politely rejecting her request for help to fund a gun buy-back ...

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Stop and frisk is a controversial policing practice that rose to prominence in New York City which supporters say saves lives by getting weapons off the streets, but critics say unfairly targets ...

"I just got stopped like two blocks ago," said a frustrated Harlem teenager to the two police officers who approached him. This is the first recorded audio of a New York City "stop and frisk" recorded ...

The NYPD continues to violate a court order by underreporting the rate that cops use controversial stop-and-frisk practices, a federal monitor says. In a 169-page status report filed Friday in ...

Democratic mayoral hopeful Eric Adams on Wednesday told critics of his record on stop-and-frisk policing to “shut up.” Speaking at a Brooklyn rally ahead of Wednesday night’s Democratic candidate ...

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Hillary Clinton met in Philadelphia with black mothers whose children have died at the hands of police Wednesday, promising to reform the criminal justice system and telling them that the evidence for ...