New York City's lawyers expressed glee Thursday after learning that Judge Shira Scheindlin, who ruled against them in the constitutional challenge to "stop and frisk," had been removed from the case.

Michael Bloomberg's at it again, using dead bodies as proxies for policy discussion. The shooting of a Bronx teenager last week gave him an opportunity to continue bashing critics of stop and frisk.

A young black or Hispanic man has a constitutional right to walk or hang out in any New York neighborhood, including his own, without being stopped and frisked by the police on the basis of a police ...

A Brooklyn teen was declared brain dead after being shot Wednesday night, one day after he graduated middle school. The stepfather of 14-year-old Akeal Christopher thinks that the shooting could have ...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirms his proposal to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana possessed in public is dead. He had introduced the bill with much fanfare earlier this month. He noted that ...

The federal monitor overseeing reform of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices died Monday morning of cancer. Peter Zimroth, 78, oversaw court-ordered reforms of NYPD policies and training regarding ...