The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched, or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars ...

A Newark city councilwoman who interfered in her nephew's police traffic stop was properly convicted of obstruction of justice, stripped of her position and barred from public office, a state appeals ...

The attorney general is criticizing Rhode Island State Police over the handling of an investigation into a trooper who drove off from a traffic stop months ago. The trooper was forced to quit in May ...

WASHINGTON — D.C.’s police watchdog is raising alarm over what it calls a systemic failure by the Metropolitan Police Department to properly document stop-and-frisk encounters, a lapse that violates ...