New data released by the New York City Police Department shows that police stopped and frisked more people in 2011 than any other year in history. The police tactic has long been criticized as racial...
February 14, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded to new data released to the City Council by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) summarizing stop...
A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on Mohammed al-Qahtani. Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Open Letter in Response to the Closing of the Berks County Family Shelter Care Center and Solicitation of New Family Detention Beds Attention: John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs...
OVERPOLICED AND UNDERPROTECTED: Women, Race, and Criminalization Engaging scholars from various disciplines, as well as practitioners and community activists, to interrogate how criminalization of...
Two years after the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program was implemented, federal officials determined that choices available to local law enforcement agencies that wished to decline or...
Nicholas K. Peart, a witness in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights against racial profiling, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times...
The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured two important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. On the one hand, federal...
Michael Bloomberg 's decision to break up Occupy Wall Street 's protest in Zuccotti Park has pitched the mayor into a battle that goes to the heart of the US's fiercely protected right to freedom of...
