March 2013“New York is a cosmopolitan, sophisticated city in the leading democracy in the world, yet its residents all too often feel like they are living in an occupied country—only the occupation...
October 5, 2023...“While BPD has claimed to have instituted measures in recent years to mitigate implicit bias and to end its tolerance of misconduct, a historical throughline of racial animus and injustice appears...
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
June 2013This week presents a pivotal moment for the New York City Council to do their share in the citywide movement to end the massive violation of rights resulting from the abuse of policing practices like...
July 31, 2019...The NYPD anti-gang initiative also came as a class-action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenged the department’s use of stop-and-frisk. In 2013, a federal judge...
December 2011Nicholas 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 Center for Constitutional Rights created the Ella Baker Summer Internship Program in 1987 to honor the legacy of Ella Baker, a hero of the civil rights movement, and to train the next generation...
Updated: September 5, 2025
December 14, 2017...In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies...
2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, Israel’s genocide of...
Updated: September 9, 2025
On July 26, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released, "Stop and Frisk The Human Impact: The Stories Behind the Numbers, the Effects on our Communities," a report documenting the...
Updated: November 2, 2017
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