Stop-and-Frisk Class Action Update
Updated: December 19, 2012
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
February 24, 2011, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for the year 2010 made...
August 2013In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated...
July 1, 2020Civil rights lawyers want Zimroth to investigate why blacks and Hispanics made up an overwhelming majority of those issued summonses and arrested for violating social distancing rules. “Over the past...
July 9, 2015New York City police may be avoiding "lawful and prudent" street stops to avoid "personal legal liability" after being hammered for racial profiling in a landmark civil rights case, a federal monitor...
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
May 2010The NYPD is stopping far more minorities than whites, thereby suggesting racial proficling, if not racism.
The climate under President Trump is no ordinary political context, and requires no ordinary activism. Here we gather some resources to help targeted communities protect themselves, and to help us...
Updated: October 14, 2020
July 12, 2010, New York, NY – Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be available today for comment on stops-and-frisks and other New York Police Department (NYPD)...
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