The Joliet Police Department is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit for patting down a 12-year-old girl who was a passenger ...

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 ...

New York City's reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk" as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law, a court-appointed ...

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 ...

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 ...