You probably think of a traffic stop as a minor inconvenience, a few minutes on the shoulder before you get back on the road.

When a patrol car slides in behind you, the officer inside is already running through a checklist long before you see blue ...

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 ...

COATESVILLE — It’s dark, late at night, you’ve been pulled over by police while driving, and you’re nervous. The officer looks a bit nervous, too. There is an easy way to cut some of that tension in ...

A civil rights attorney who is representing a woman arrested during a traffic stop in Hurst said the officer failed to use de ...