(The Root) — Though the New York City Police Department has steadfastly denied that its controversial stop-and-frisk program constitutes racial profiling, today it appears that New York’s finest are ...

New Jersey cops arrested a Black man after pulling him over for wearing a hoodie, claiming it made him look “suspicious” ...

Last week, we reported on “Secure Communities,” a new national program that links local detention centers into a national database of illegal aliens. In our story, critics of the plan said it might ...

'Routine stop and search', Hackney, North London, 2011. Karel Prinsloo/Press Association. All rights reserved. If you have never been stopped and search by the police ...

A civil lawsuit alleging racial profiling by Japanese police began with testimony from plaintiffs on Monday. The lawsuit, filed by three residents of Japan, alleges that they were frequently stopped ...

Ethnic profiling remains a sensitive and complex issue within police work. In his Ph.D. research at the University of Twente, Bas Böing examined how police officers can be more effectively engaged in ...

Anaysheon Coffey, a South Carolina Black woman, was awarded a $120,000 settlement last month because a white cop with a history of racial profiling barged into her home without a warrant and arrested ...

The latest official report on police racial profiling in Connecticut finds no significant disparity in the way police treated drivers during traffic stops in 2022. The Connecticut Racial Profiling ...

The over-policing and raid of a so-called blind pig sparked the 1967 race rebellion in Detroit. Subsequently, in the 1970s, Detroit police had the notorious STRESS program where undercover cops ...

The Bayonne Police Department plans to investigate two of its own after a complaint was filed by a man who contends he was a victim of racial profiling and was assaulted by the arresting officers, ...