Two of the big legal stories of the past few weeks seem, on the surface, to have almost nothing to do with one another. Attorney General Eric Holder gave a tentative acquiescence to the ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing legislation that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in public view, which is the leading cause of arrests citywide. Cuomo, joined by lawmakers, ...

A federal judge has tossed gun-possession charges against a Brooklyn man who claimed he was illegally searched — marking the second time since August that the same anti-crime unit saw a case dropped ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The weapons possession conviction of a 14-year-old boy who was found with a loaded gun after a stop-and-frisk in the Bronx was overturned in an appeals court Thursday. Darryl ...

GOV. Cuomo plans to ask lawmakers Monday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot in a move to reduce stop-and-frisk arrests, it was reported Sunday night. “This proposal will bring long ...

NYPD cops rely on stop-and-frisk to keep illegal guns off the street. So it turns out that the juvenile delinquent whose “stop-and-frisk” pistol-possession conviction was mindlessly overturned by an ...

Marijuana possession was the top offense among those arrested after police stopped and questioned them last year, the New York Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. Of 532,911 stops last year, 89% did ...

The majority of arrests made as a result of stop-and-frisk encounters in 2012 were for marijuana possession, according to a recent analysis of police department data. The analysis, conducted by the ...