June 1, 2022... “The NYPD cannot solve a problem when it does not understand its scale,” said Center for Constitutional Rights senior staff attorney Omar Farah. “And just like prior reports, that widespread...
March 18, 2019Retaliation and gov't dossiers on lawyers at the Southern Border Our clients at Al Otro Lado recently began to be harassed and detained by officials at the U.S.-Mexico border. Al Otro Lado is an...
May 15, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
January 28, 2019"Remain in Mexico" policy is a virtual wall and will lead to deaths In response to the announcement that the Trump administration will force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their...
December 13, 2017, New York – In response to the court-appointed monitor in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filing his seventh status...
December 2013New Yorkers have expressed their displeasure with the excessive use of stop-and-frisk by the Bloomberg administration. Voters were moved by this issue in the recent citywide election, a federal court...
November 2013For over a decade, New Yorkers from all walks of life have brought this to Mayor Bloomberg's attention time and time again: the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices are not only racially biased and...
Deeper investment in police forces in communities will amplify the racial divide says, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren . Trouble seeing the video? Watch ig on...
Updated: November 21, 2016
February 2012The NYPD conducted 684,330 stops in 2011, the highest number on record since the City Council started collecting stop-and-frisk data in 2002. Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights,...
This settlement represents a monumental victory for prisoners and an important step toward our goal of ending solitary confinement in California, and across the country. California’s agreement to...
Updated: September 1, 2015
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