Police chiefs across England and Wales are reportedly discussing plans to broaden officers’ stop and search powers by scrapping the “reasonable grounds” condition. How to solve Britain's knife crime ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — As Washington, D.C.’s murder rate continues to skyrocket, some believe a controversial new proposal from Councilmember Brooke Pinto will sacrifice constitutional rights in the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Two students in the Bronx are demanding action after they say they were victims of the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk policy. Officials held a press conference on Thursday to ...

A Conservative government would triple the use of stop and search powers in high crime areas in England and Wales, the shadow home secretary has said. In a speech to his party's conference, Chris ...

If we have reasonable suspicions that you might be carrying something illegal or something which may be used in a crime, using stop and search enables us to search you without having to arrest you.

It's been almost two years since the Metropolitan Police was severely criticised by the Casey Review for "over-policing and under-protecting" Black Londoners, said the BBC. Now, the force has come up ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's strong reaction Friday to an ABC7 I-Team investigation of a controversial Chicago police tactic: vehicle searches during traffic stops, especially in minority communities.

Police are now scared to stop and search suspects if they smell cannabis, officers revealed yesterday. Chief constables have called for those on the frontline to take a tougher line on the class B ...

The Conservatives are demanding a 'dramatic' increase in the use of stop and search to take more knives off Britain's streets following the Huntingdon train attack. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp ...

The conservatives have been in power for 12 years. That is long enough for some policies to be tried, ditched and revived. Stop-and-search, a policing technique in which people are stopped on the ...