August 8, 2018... “The NYPD’s so-called ‘Criminal Group Database’ and gang policing practices are a black box that, like stop-and-frisk before them, have subjected thousands of young people of color in New York...
Southern Justice Rising represents the Center for Constitutional Rights’ deepened, renewed institutional commitment to liberatory movements in the South.
Updated: October 27, 2025
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 7, 2017
On September 13, 2011, CCR and SNAP, a survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...
Updated: September 15, 2011
December 11, 2023Attacks against queer and trans people in state legislatures continue unabated, with lawmakers demonstrating their intentions over the past few weeks to maintain the momentum from last year's record...
February 21, 2020...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
June 4, 2020...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
June 13, 2023NYPD’s street crime units are frequently making illegal stops and nearly exclusively stopping Blacks and Latinos, according to the Court-appointed Monitor.
May 2, 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...
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