May 31, 2020, New York – In response to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s explicit defense of the NYPD’s use of violent and unjustified force against protestors, as well as the history of impunity for brutality...
May 31, 2020, New York – In response to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s explicit defense of the NYPD’s use of violent and unjustified force against protesters, as well as the history of impunity for brutality...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
July 1, 2020... Civil liberties organizations had threatened to sue if the curfew was extended beyond Sunday. “Eliminating the curfew was a necessary step in stopping the cycle of police violence and silencing...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at the 19th Annual NACOLE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 24th. Since 1995, NACOLE has been bringing together individuals and...
Updated: September 18, 2013
October 9, 2018...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
February 2012New data released by the New York City Police Department shows that police stopped and frisked more people in 2011 than any other year in history. The police tactic has long been criticized as racial...
Stop-and-frisk attorneys respond to new Monitor’s report on Community Response Teams June 3, 2025, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case against the NYPD, Floyd v...
August 2, 2021Stop-and-frisk plaintiffs ask court to include community in monitorship program On Thursday, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City...
August 18, 2017Four years ago this week, federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the way New York police officers were stopping and frisking individuals amounted to racial discrimination, and was hence...
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