In the late 1980s, the United States experienced an unprecedented spike in violent crime. Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk ...
This story is from Stop and Frisk, a podcast production from WHYY News and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting Though only 40% of city residents are Black, the bloodshed ...
Violent crime, and how to reduce it, dominated the 2023 Philadelphia mayoral campaign. Below, we explain what stop-and-frisk is and how it has been used in Philadelphia. Then we describe those ...