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 ...

Queer cinema has existed for almost as long as cinema itself, but it wasn’t until the New Queer Cinema of the ’90s that LGBTQ+ storytelling became a full blown movement on screen. First coined by ...

An infamous Manhattan judge turned arbitrator overstepped her bounds in a long-running legal battle over the Ramones, a former business manager for the iconic punk band claimed. Shira Scheindlin — who ...

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The NYPD doesn’t adequately punish cops who conduct unconstitutional street stops, a practice that goes back years, according to a scathing 503-page report released Monday. The report was prepared by ...

NEW YORK -- The NYPD is essentially letting officers off the hook for using the banned practice of stop-and-frisk, according to a lengthy report that alleges the department is unwilling to police ...

The New York City police department is lax in punishing officers who illegally stop and frisk people on the street, undermining efforts to curb wrongful uses of the tactic than a judge declared ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of the District of Columbia exposes troubling racial disparities in the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) ...

Former President Trump on Friday accepted the endorsement of the nation’s largest police union and indicated he would pursue policies in a second term to bolster police immunity and encourage the use ...

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 ...

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