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...
Civil rights lawyers want Zimroth to investigate why blacks and Hispanics made up an overwhelming majority of those issued summonses and arrested for violating social distancing rules. “Over the past...
May 30, 2024, Buffalo, NY – In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD),...
New York City police may be avoiding "lawful and prudent" street stops to avoid "personal legal liability" after being hammered for racial profiling in a landmark civil rights case, a federal monitor...
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...
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we’ve launched “The 9/11 Effect,” providing background and resources on the United States’ post-9/11 response that caused two decades of injustice at home and...
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So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...
NYPD’s street crime units are frequently making illegal stops and nearly exclusively stopping Blacks and Latinos, according to the Court-appointed Monitor.
