Testimony Shows Officers Receive No Training on Racial Bias or Profiling November 14, 2022, Buffalo, NY – Litigation against the Buffalo Police Department (BPD) challenging the constitutionality of...
May 18, 2026The Feliz family fights for accountability against a system designed to prevent it
CCR filed an amicus brief in the case of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan who was released in 2014 in exchange for five Guantanamo prisoners. Bergdahl is...
Updated: October 5, 2017
December 30, 2015The failure to indict a police officer for yet another killing of a young, Black person – this time a child, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – should outrage us and cause us to look more deeply at the...
May 16, 2012, New York – Today, a federal judge granted class certification in a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) stop-and-frisk practices as unconstitutional...
November 25, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman and Covington & Burling, urged the Second Circuit Court of...
September 23, 2015In an effort to spark a more productive and powerful discussion about racial justice, the NYU School of Law hosted activists and academics for a panel discussion that questioned the larger...
12 years after historic ruling, monitor continues to report unconstitutional stops, racial profiling February 26, 2025, New York – I n response to the year-end report by the court-appointed monitor...
Special to CNN (This Opinion-Editorial was originally published by CNN) Reporting Arizona law to UN was correct by Chandra S. Bhatnagar and Alessandra Soler Meetze September 4, 2010 -- Updated 2034...
Updated: September 7, 2010
April 20, 2017Originally posted on Huffington Post . Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made no secret of his hostility toward movements that have drawn attention to police violence, challenged the...
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