October 2, 2015Long before a national spotlight was cast on the long-standing, tempestuous relationship between police and the Black and Brown communities they occupy, New York City was in the limelight for its...
December 12, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released a report analyzing the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk data for January 2010...
July 5, 2019...“Despite a federal court finding, despite years and years of statistics that have shown severe and frankly unjustifiable racial disparities in who they are policing and how they are policing them...
March 25, 2021New York City cannot address the NYPD’s long history and continuation of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory policing practices without substantive engagement with the communities most...
March 17, 2017Last Wednesday, as thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Central Park for an International Women’s Day demonstration, New York State Senators were hard at work in Albany, limiting our right to protest...
November 1, 2017Legal experts were boggled by President Trump’s off-the-cuff comments on Wednesday about sending the terror suspect accused of killing eight people in New York to Guantanemo Bay. Trump, in his first...
May 16, 2022The monitor in our landmark stop-and-frisk case has issued another report
March 2015" Months after failing to scuttle a landmark settlement to reform stop-and-frisk policies, five New York City police unions muscled their way Thursday into playing a limited role on the deal's...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2020-9/2022. The Bertha Justice Fellowship at the Center for Constitutional Rights is a two-year program for emerging...
Updated: February 13, 2020
Since 2002, the United States has operated a secretive killing program using armed drones and other weapons in multiple countries, far removed from any legitimate battlefields. These so-called...
Updated: March 8, 2017
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