(The Root) — On Monday, federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices were unconstitutional, but to thousands of the city’s black and ...

The Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled police may conduct a second Terry frisk when new witness information creates ...

The parents of a 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy killed by a sheriff's deputy who thought the airsoft rifle he was carrying was real has filed a lawsuit over their son's death, claiming the deputy who shot ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...