July 9, 2015The New York Police Department may not be accurately reporting the number of stop-and-frisk encounters, casting doubt on the extent of the decline in the crime-fighting tactic, according to a federal...
Abu Zubaydah is a victim of some of the most egregious torture perpetrated against detainees in the post-9/11 era. Held in CIA prisons located in various third countries from 2002 to 2006, he was the...
Updated: August 23, 2021
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident...
* With Shayana Kadidal, Betty Yu & Emma Cape This discussion will explore: 1) How the Bradley Manning case (and WikiLeaks) has impacted media, shifted editorial standards, particularly concerning...
Updated: June 25, 2012
May 2010According to the Times, police spokesman Paul Browne believes "the police were confident the tactic was stopping crime before it occurred." Newly analyzed data by The Center for...
Please join New York City Public Advocate Letitia James and other police accountability movement leaders at Cardozo Law School, on Monday, January 27, at 6:30 p.m. for a critical community event on...
Updated: January 24, 2014
February 18, 2019Big win for activists and environmental groups: racketeering lawsuit dismissed [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, a federal judge dismissed a sprawling racketeering lawsuit filed against...
January 24, 2020, Bergen County – Today, a New Jersey court dismissed an attempt by Thomas Powers, a member of the Ramapo Hunt & Polo Club homeowners’ association, to dismantle a settlement...
Oral Arguments on Police Unions’ Appeal of Denial to Intervene in Stop and Frisk Case Please join CCR for oral arguments in Floyd v. the City of New York at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, October 15. In...
Updated: October 9, 2014
July 2008A video of the interrogation of Omar Khadr is released, and the Center for Constitutional Rights comments on how it reflects on the Guantanamo system as a major human rights violation. You can access...
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