Nearly a quarter of stops, frisks and searches made by the NYPD’s revamped anti-crime unit over a three-month span last year were unlawful, according to a scathing new report from the police ...

PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court said it will review whether police should be allowed to frisk associates of someone taken into custody. The justices agreed Tuesday to review a Court of Appeals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge won't let prosecutors use evidence of a crime because a Topeka police officer violated the defendant's ...

From Friday's decision in Commonwealth v. Demos D., by Massachusetts Appeals Court Justice Joseph Ditkoff, joined by Justices Sookyoung Shin and Robert Brennan: A police officer encountering a sixteen ...

Since the early 1990s the New York Police Department has used a crime-prevention strategy that it calls “stop, question, and frisk.” Accordingly, officers stop and question a person based on ...

STAMFORD -- A 35-year-old man showed up at a cafe swinging an ax at patrons because he was upset by the restaurant's mandatory frisking policy, police said. The ax-wielding man, identified as Josue ...